Let's get small

Interesting Motley Fool article on current prospects for investing in nanotech. Summary: there ain't none yet, but when that changes, damn. I find it really interesting that outfits like Merril Lynch have officially backed nanotech as this century's first new long-term growth propect. Financial stuff to one side, it's a subtly thrilling validation that it's actually going to happen. (For whatever "it" means. I'm not positive we're heading into an anarcho-goofball Diamond Age future of "toner wars" and self-cleaning hats, but I'll stake that ubiquitous nanotech of some sort is going to change the world at least as much as ubiqutous Internet has. Exciting times.)

I would love to invest in nanotech as one of my "plus a few" stocks. Doing a little reading on it today, I learn that the top of the S&P 500 reads like a roster of America's most famously sociopathic corporations, and suddenly I find myself a shareholder in them. So, yeah, I could use some karmic balance.