For those of you flummoxed by all this nanotechnology stuff, here's one of the best sites around for a fascinating and very readable introduction to nanotechnology and how it all kicked off.
"The site explores and presents information on technological activities (and their associated social implications) that have the capacity to not only enhance our survival probability as a species, but to improve the quality of life as we move along the evolutionary path. We are non-partisan, and are neither anti nor pro-religious, preferring to remain open or at least tolerant regarding theories and beliefs which can be neither proven nor refuted scientifically. We are proponents of science and technology in the sense of being realists in recognizing that technology is coming whether we as a species or whether any one of us as an individual like it or not, and believe that the most effective action we can take is to learn more about technology in order to collectively guide its proper use toward a positive future. This site is intended primarily for the layperson, and is both factual and speculative in nature. It uses the interdisciplinary relationship of several main sciences to explore human advancement "
