- “There is always likely to be anxiety about the jobs of the future, because in the long run most of them will involve producing goods and services that have not yet been invented.”- Alan Greenspan [11]
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- Nanotechnologies caused a worldwide reduction of eight thousand tons of carbon dioxide in 2007. By 2014, they will be saving one million tons of CO2 a year. [12]
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- We have reached a point, as MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte has noted, at which “a fiber the size of a human hair can deliver every issue of the Wall Street Journal ever made in less than a second.” [13]
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- Improvements in supercomputing technology are made so quickly that the list of top performers has to be updated twice a year. [14]
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- Nano-scale sensors may someday be able to smell cancer. Scientists have mapped out the odor profiles for some types of skin cancer and are in the process of making a nano-sized device equipped with an electronic nose capable of detecting cancer’s scent. This would allow doctors to diagnose skin cancer without ever conducting a biopsy. [15]
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- In 2009, the US government invested approximately $1.5 billion in nanotechnology research, over three times as much as in 2001. [16]
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- 3,000 pharmaceuticals will be identified, tested, and commercialized by 2020 (up from 500 in 2000) thanks to information gained from the Human Genome Project. [17]
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Seven Revolutions 