Your business is about to get really small.
7/14/2003
Most books on nanotechnology focus on the technological or social changes that very small technology will bring to our lives. This book focuses on the impact on business, and how profound it will be, according to the author, a former director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning. If nanotechnology is, among other things, the ability to move and manipulate atoms, are we that far from being able to transform coal into diamonds? Coming is a world of self-cleaning windows, self-driving cars, and self-repairing bodies—who needs house cleaners, chauffeurs, or surgeons? That's why $2 billion a year is being invested in nanotechnology by various industries, investments that could pay off with some $1 trillion worth of products in the United States and up to two million new jobs later this decade. Each chapter includes thinking points, here called "nanopoints," that business leaders should consider when pondering the future on an atomic level.