Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is, as the name inplies, technology on the nanometer (billionths of a meter) scale working at the mollecular and atomic levels, covering a wide field of disiplines from medical aplications to computer systems. The most well known varient of this is that of Nanorobotics, which is the creation of microscopic robots (Commonly called 'Nanorobots', 'Nanobots' or 'Nanites') and is generally slated for aplications in medicine and in computer manufactuirng.

Applications in fiction

Nanotechnology, in praticular Nanorobotics is a common theme in modern science fiction. A few notable apperences of Nanotechnology include...

• Evolution (Star Trek, TNG)-The computer systems of the Enterprise-D is infested by a network of self replicating nanites which seize control of said computer systems and eventually, through the establishment of a hive mind, achieve sapience. Said Nanites were eventually dropped off on an alien planet by the enterprise crew and could easily be destroyed by bursts of electromagnetic energy.