We might be talking about the old sci-fi thriller or perhaps the ongoing media clash (convergence) between television and computers. The colliding worlds could be any of a dozen confrontations within the worlds of technology, culture or ideology. But our topic is not a big battle of planets, countries, societies or titans. In fact, it's the impending clash within the Brave New Nanoworld. Then again, the nanoworld is constantly colliding with our macro-world as it strives to become the darling technology universe of the 21st Century Century. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices constructed with semiconductor processes have taken on the big machines made piecemeal by humans. Nanotechnology can now build gears, wheels and tiny mirrors the size of microbes. MEMS can move, "hear," "see" and control the surrounding space.
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