By Selwyn Duke

Ever since the dawn of the atomic age, the world has been a
different place. This change is epitomized by an image we’ve all seen,
that of a nuclear detonation and ensuing mushroom cloud. It’s a picture
worth more than a thousand words, one representing the ultimate in
worldly power: the capacity to extinguish human life on a scale
previously unimagined. It’s a power that inspired the overseer of the
Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, to quote the Bhagavad Gita
and lament, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Yet, now, in the nascence of the new millennium, man is developing a
force whose power may dwarf that boogeyman of 1950s duck-and-cover
nightmares. It is called nanotechnology (NT). But like atomic power,
this new force could be used for good as well as bad.

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