Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology will be one of the greatest innovation of 21st century. Although a lot of research is still underway in this area it is promising. Nanotechnology is all about getting deep down into the level of working with atoms. If there was a way to arrange the atoms in a way that could significantly reduce the design of physical material to a nano scale (one billionth of a meter) then we are talking about nanotechnology. Researchers have designed a guitar that is the size of a red blood cell which will give you fair idea of the size that we are talking about. Nanotechnology could be applied to so many different areas like space research, medicine, computers etc. With nanotechnology in place a computer of matchbox size can hold and handle more than the kind of infrastructure that now Google has to perform its functions. With nanotechnology a sofa could be built so light that you can lift it with one hand without effort. Here is “How Nanotechnology will work” from HowStuffWorks.com and an interesting article “Nanotechnology: It’s a Small, Small, Small, Small World” that gives an elaborate introduction to this technology.
