somebody wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote
> 
>> Most nanotech is just particles at the moment, or nanoscale features on
>> normal substrates. I think. Fullerenes count too, like buckyballs or
>> buckytubes. There's all sorts of novel applications but it's mainly just
>> paints and coatings at the moment. I think actual machines are quite a
>> way off yet...
> 
> That's the bottomline. What's now called nano-science used to be known as
> colloidal science (or in the other case, just solid state technology). Any
> small molecule technically qualifies as a nano-particle as well. The
> nano-science, as originally intended, hasn't come to fruition yet.

Yah. Tiny machines swimming through bloodstreams etc is probably better 
described as nano-engineering.

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