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25 March 2010
Why Nanotech Hasn't (Yet) Triggered 'the Yuck Factor' - AOLNews
(By Andrew Schneider) The term nanotechnology means different things to different people.
"To some it represents the miracle cure for all that ails us. To others, it could be the end of the world as we know it," says Andrew Maynard, chief science adviser for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnology.
Earlier this decade, the creativity of novelists like "Prey" author Michael Crichton, Star Trek writers and supermarket tabloid reporters brought attention to nanotechnology with tales of gray-goo-spewing nanobots running amok and humanity being taken over by autonomous self-replicating nano devices.