With our ever keen eye for sloppy journalism, a recent article in Industry Week looking at the “History of Nanotechnology” with the somewhat tortuous tag line “Way back in 1959 the first stirrings of the concept arose,” caught our attention.
At least it doesn’t credit Eric Drexler with the invention of nanotechnology, but we are curious where the (mis)information about the discoverer of nanotubes, a certain Sumio Lijino came from.