Building With Atoms

The Future Of Tomorrow

How Technology, Medicine, Computers, and Travel Will Change Beyond the 21st Century

Atoms are the building blocks for all matter in our universe. You and everything around you are made of atoms. Nature has perfected the science of manufacturing matter molecularly. for instance, our bodies are assembled in a specific manner from millions of living cells. Cells are nature's nanomachines. Humans still have to learn about the idea of constructing materials on such a small scale. Consumer goods that we buy are made by pushing piles of atoms together in a bulky, imprecise manner. Imagine if we could manipulate each individual atom of an object. That's the basic idea of nantechnology and many scientists believe that we are only a few decades from achieving it.

Nanotechnology is a hybrid science combining engineering and chemistry.Atoms and molecules stick together because they have complementary shapes that lock together, or charges that attract.Just like with magnets, a positively charged atom will stick to a negatively charged atom.As millions of these atoms are pieced together by nanomachines, a specific product will begin to take shape.the goal of nanotechnology is to manipulate atoms individually and place them in pattern to produce a desired structue. these are three steps to achieving nanotechnology-produced goods.