Inspiration
Richard Feynman, once a great physicist and now a pop-industry icon, is largely considered the ‘founding father’ of nanotechnology.
He did this at a lecture he gave on Caltech at December 1959. It was titled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, and Feynman challenged there his generation with problems of miniaturization and other things related to what evolved into the nano field, the conneciton to biology and so forth. You can find a transcript of the talk here, and I think it is pretty inspiring to read it, and remember that is was given almost 50 years ago. Even more, when comparing it to what is actually going on in the field these days - for example, compare Feynman’s vision about writing small texts with the latest nano-bible realization that came out of my lab, on which I wrote a bit a few months ago.
Indeed, Feynman really was a very smart man.
