By the early 1950s, some people were starting to realize that their house could become their base technology & neat gadgets. The late 1950s was a time when wiring that was as thin as a blade of grass was considered small. Just in time for the dawn of the 1960s, Richard Feynman informed the scientific world of the implications & benefits of Nanotechnology.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~feynman/plenty.html
http://www.nanotech-now.com/whos-who.htm
http://sliceofmit.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/richard-feynman/
http://www.feynmanonline.com/
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Eventually synthetic biochemical lifeforms could function as nano & micro size robots robots.
In the early 1950s, people saw how Gort & the ship were an interconnected technology unit.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=nanotechnology http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/nanotechnology/
Jim Elvidge talks about nanotechnology in this interview.
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"THE ILLUSION OF REALITY
...Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."
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http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/12/virtual-reality-will-come-from-inside-our-brain-not-goggles-says-ray-kurzweil, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2gzRQ5f3No
Philosophy behind the Matrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1jHx29C70&feature=related
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The Etch A Sketch Pad
The Vast Scale of Things