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Nanotechnology's unhappy father

机译：纳米技术的不幸父亲

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It is a galling thing to see your invention 1 stolen. That is not, however, what Eric Drexler thinks has happened to him. Rather, and rather worse, he believes the name of his invention has been stolen and applied to something else. That name is nanotechnology, and Dr Drexler is cross not merely about the theft, but the fact that he feels the theft has stopp ed him pursuing his original vision. For the term nanotechnology, which once had a pre cise, if far-off, meaning, is now b eing bandied about by every Tom, Dick and Harriet with half a plan for making very small things, and a need to get a government grant or raise venture capital. Miniaturisation is not, of course, a new idea. One of the consistent aims of innovation has been to make things as small as possible. Smallness saves space. It brings portability, the possibility of cramming more components together in order to achieve more sophisticated ends and, notleast, a saving in materials used, and thus in cost. It was Richard Feynman, one of the 20th century's most famous and eclectic physicists, who first raise d the idea that miniaturisation might go all the way down to the molecular level, and that devices with components made from denned and countable numbers of atoms might be made. He did so in 1959, in a lecture entitled "There is plenty of room at the bottom".
机译：看到您的发明1被盗是一件令人振奋的事情。但是，那并不是埃里克·德雷克斯勒（Eric Drexler）认为发生在他身上的事情。相反，甚至更糟的是，他认为自己的发明名称已被盗用并用于其他用途。这个名字就是纳米技术，Drexler博士不仅对盗窃感到不满，而且他觉得盗窃的事实阻止了他追求最初的视野。对于曾经有一个精确的纳米技术这个术语，即使相距遥远，它的含义现在也被汤姆，迪克和哈丽特每个人所迷惑，其中有一半的计划用于制造很小的东西，并且需要获得政府拨款。或筹集风险投资。小型化当然不是一个新主意。创新的一贯宗旨之一就是使事物尽可能小。体积小，节省空间。它带来了便携性，将更多的组件塞在一起以实现更复杂的端部的可能性，并且至少节省了所用的材料，从而节省了成本。理查德·费曼（Richard Feynman）是20世纪最著名的折衷主义物理学家之一，他首先提出了一个想法，即微型化可能一直延伸到分子水平，而具有由密集的和可数数目的原子组成的组件的装置可能是制作。 1959年，他在一次名为“底部有足够空间”的演讲中做到了这一点。

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