Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Chris Matney in Book Publishing, Front Page Posts

A number of manuscripts submitted to Trapdoor Books deal with nanotechnology. It is a wonderful topic for speculative fiction, and I am hoping that several of them get published this spring. Even The Magician of Lhasa talked about the technology. Last week, I stumbled across this article in the NY Times on smart dust and thought it was an interesting nanotechnology topic for discussion with our readers. I have reprinted the first few paragraphs below, and the entire article is here. Enjoy.

“In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more.