Nanotechnology has long fascinated me, ever since the subject was a gleam in Eric Drexler's eye. Indeed, when his book Engines of Creation first appeared, I bought it and devoured it in a day. Back then, the promise was a whole new kind of technology, and medicine.  In recent years, it became a more personal interest, as I befriended someone with Morgellon's disease, who, along with his doctor, are convinced that at least some of the strange material they see growing from his sores is nanoengineering, gone horribly wrong, or worse, horribly according to plan. But the promise remains as … [Read more...]