| 1992-04. Fall 92 Vol.140 Iss.27. Is Anybody Out There? Time. P. 78-80 | Freeman Dyson- Institute for Advanced Stdy in Princeton, NJ
K. Eric Drexler, author of Engines of Creation
Konstantin Feoktistov, a former Soviet cosmonaut
Eric Jones, physicist at Los Alamos labs | mostly speculation and imagination | nanotech will be used to create tiny robots that will create devices, including radiostransmitters to send messages to earth, when we try to colonize Mars | predicted that in 500 years humans will be exploring many planets, and population will be 1 trillion | space exploration | nanotech is used in a futuristic sense to be sent into space to create radio transmitters to send messages back to earth |
| 1992-07. Hooper, L. 12/29/92. In the Lab: It Doesn't Get Much Smaller Than This. Wall Street Journal. P. B2 | International Business Machines Corp.- Phaidon Avouris, Whan Lyo
IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center | scanning tunneling microscope | "the once-blurry honeycomb jumps into glorious focus…from the tip of his viewing instrument, a scanning tunneling microscope" (B2) | new STM's can be as small as a pencil eraser and cost more than $500,000 | science | "it's at this never-before-seen scale [nanometers] that 21st-century circuitry will likely be built" (B2) |