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The Top Ten Nanotech Trends for the 21st Century

  1. Nanotech enterprises will provide the ultimate convergence of computers, networks, and biotech, and create products never before even imagined.
  2. Nano-devices-invisible, intelligent, and powerful-will be used in every industry redefining the limits of what's possible.
  3. Nanotech food compilers will create on-demand, low-cost, quality meals by assembling atoms into food.
  4. Smaller than the head of a pin, surgical nanobots will operate from within the human body.
  5. Nano-biology will prolong life, prevent illness, and increase people's health.
  6. Nano-enhanced humans will have physical, intellectual, and sensing powers superior to other humans.
  7. Nanotech will provide a cheap and available source of energy.
  8. Nano-factories will build on-demand products in an inexpensive, flexible, and rapid process.
  9. Nanotech will revolutionize the global economy, providing Power Tools that will produce high-tech products with low-cost and low-tech resources.
  10. Nanotech will create new choices that will alter human evolution, raise dramatic ethical issues, and challenge social norms.