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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 12:21:00 -0700
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS  Nanotechnology

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The following quotation is not from a science fiction novel but from the June 
1996 issue of Byte. It describes a talk give at IBM's lab in Almaden by IBM 
Fellow Don Eigler. The talk was given in a large auditorium with standing  
room only.
             

 "Eigler brought up a massive screen at the front of the auditorium and 
  flipped a few switches. Suddenly we were seeing a live feed from a Scanning 
  Tunneling  Microscope (STM) at the other end of the building. The STM isn't 
  just good for looking at atoms, Eigler explained, it can move them one by 
  one. He donned a data glove (whose inventor Tom Zimmerman, recently joined 
  IBM at Almaden). The room fell silent. Then he "picked up" a xenon atom and 
  moved it. The silence was broken by the ovation from the roomful of seasoned 
  skeptics."


                                             John K Clark     


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