NANO ========= TINY REVOLUTION

While general interest in nanotechnology is increasing rapidly, most of the recent growth of interest in nanotech comes from those with a strategic interest, such as governments, venture capitalists, large technology-oriented corporations, and scientists working in the field. These groups constitute our target audience and, as such, our focus will be on the short- and medium-term, in which their interest will largely lie. The aim of this white paper is to give an introduction to the wide variety of technologies that fall under the nanotech umbrella, and to present this in a manner that gives a sense of the areas of our world, and thus the markets, that will be impacted, and when. This will be done in later sections, after a high-level look at nanotechnology as a whole, a brief look at current funding and financing and an overview of the longer-term and more speculative visions of nanotech that have so caught the public imagination, and without which any discussion of nanotechnology would be incomplete.