CNN has a decent overview on nanotechnology, so if you’ve missed the last ten years of science fiction or bad movies (or worse, not missed them), it offers a pretty good place to start. Nanotechnology, as a term, is slowly changing from ‘tiny robots’ to encompass atomic-scale manipulation in general—although it’s hard to stop thinking about the robots, I know. The article also has a picture of this scanning tunneling microscope, which is easy to get excited about, because it is shiny.
