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The implications for transforming communication due to the development of nanotechnology is summarized.The revolution of nanotechnology is not just about making things even smaller. It is that we can control things on such a small scale that now the processes we use to make things can change and we can make all sorts of new things, and have things make other things, and totally change how things are made. But to take advantage of it, we need to revolutionize other aspects of industry and academia, such as how we communicate ideas across previously separate disciplines and industries, and share technical information in new and non-linear ways. It is a good thing the Internet came along when it did!
The field of nanotechnology, including nanoparticles, microwires, et al, is not primarily about the very small structures but about the very big ideas that you can have when you broaden your mind to mix the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering.
The social impact will be tremendous when technology is developed by those who study and work through such interdisciplinary collaboration. The impact to technical communication involves these three aspects:
- Nanotechnology is cross-disciplinary by nature and will require collaboration by professionals across many disciplines
- Nanotechnology will require large amounts of information to be managed and digested by those professionals, requiring that new means of organizing knowledge be developed
- Nanotechnology has social implications that will need to be explored and articulated
In all these areas, technical communicators will play an important role.
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