'Nano, nano' food packaging technology

摘要

Some of the food packaging applications postulated ... are far, far in the future. A few ... are at least in the laboratory or even exiting the laboratory portal. "Nano, nano." I always thought that was the signature theme of Robin Williams1 character Mork from the television program "Mork and Mindy." But, it seems, 10~9--"nano"--might be a dimension teetering on the high-wire between science fiction and real technology. Since Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman's seminal 1960 book There's a Lot of Roomat the Bottom--or was it Eric Drexlers 1986 Engines of Creation or his 1997 Nnnosystems?--the scientific world has been dazzled and intrigued by this quantum leap into mysterious miniaturization. Boldly venturing where no man or woman has gone before, Drexler and his supporters have proposed molecular manipulation to manufacture, sense, control, and otherwise profoundly alter our lives.