Small WorldNanotechnology will soon mean big changes in the way you do business.
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Rick Snyder, CEO ofArdesta, a holding firm in Ann Arbor,Michigan, has a mantra: "Smaller, faster, better,cheaper." He's talking about "small tech," aterm that describes nanotechnology, microtechnology andmicro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Nanotechnology inparticular has gotten a lot of coverage as big companies likeHewlett-Packard and Intel have begun to introduce nano intocomputing.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly what small tech is because ithas so many wide-ranging applications. "I would call it moreof a revolution than an evolution," says Snyder.Nanotechnology, for example, deals with matter at an atomic andmolecular level--that is, with matter often described as being lessthan the width of a human hair in size. It's appearing ineverything from stainproof coating for fabrics to scratch-resistantcoating for eyeglasses to miniscule computer chip circuits from HPLabs.
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