“Star Trek” fans are acquainted with nanotechnology, which the feared Borg employed to transform humanoids into automaton members of their conquest-minded collective. Well, the real world is catching up with science fiction. Nanotechnology, which entails the development of super-tiny products and machines invisible to the naked eye, is a rapidly growing discipline and, according to the National Science Foundation, could amount to a trillion-dollar industry by 2015.
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