It was interesting to hear Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co echo the type of pragmatic approach we see in most large corporations when it comes to nanotechnology.
“If you look at the genesis of lots of our technology — gas turbines, aircraft engines, stuff like that — we are the world’s largest patent producer in material science and always have been.
It’s natural for us to begin work on nanotechnology because, in essence, that is going to be the next generation of materials science. So we spend a lot of money on that.
If you look at the genesis of lots of our technology — gas turbines, aircraft engines, stuff like that — we are the world’s largest patent producer in material science and always have been.
It’s natural for us to begin work on nanotechnology because, in essence, that is going to be the next generation of materials science. So we spend a lot of money on that.”
Not a nanobot in sight yet!