Nanotechnology is a little known science that deals with building things out of atoms and molecules. The idea first came about in 1959, when Richard Feynman, a physicist, stated in a lecture that: "The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom." Feynman went on to win the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics. The word nanotechnology was most likely said by Eric Drexler, in …showed first 75 words of 810 total…

…showed last 75 words of 810 total…suggesting that nanotechnology should become of greater public knowledge in years to come when they know more about it. It is difficult for most people to believe what sounds outrageous, or what they can't grasp or look at. But this is what nanotechnology asks of us. Many of the applications of nanotechnology border on what sounds like science fiction. For the moment, most of nanotechnology is fiction, but this will change in years to come.