Zach Galifianakis walks up to the driver’s side of a FedEx truck and, pretending it’s his, pulls out a key. Then he leads me to a beat-up 1997 Subaru station wagon
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Nanotechnology: Very small Business
Technologist Eric Drexler envisioned a future in which machines far smaller than dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler’s book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls.