Nanotechnology Research Isn't Funded by the Government

Early nanotek research comes from limited grants and stuff from central funding sources. The further you get from the militaryn the closer you get to he insetin in the science world, the more politics is involved. So darpa can fund just because one guy likes it, but you know, you got all sorts of chances for people to play politics and trip you up. And so there was a huge political back lash, and it kind of clobbered the research inanotec that wasn't the sort of stuff that people had already been doing. i don't think that's going to happen again.

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