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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.

Date: 2005-06-02 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com
Technology Review this month hasan interesting discussion of nanotech companies as well. It shouldn't be too hard to find an MIT alum who has a copy lying around.

Date: 2005-06-02 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jtroutman.livejournal.com
Apex Nano... watch them.

They are making software for designing nanotech, today. A bunch of ex-microsoft folks who already have made the big bucks. I used to game with one of the founders, long ago. He is also writing books.

Date: 2005-06-02 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prog.livejournal.com
But infuriatingly they are not public, which fits the theme of the Fool article.

The whole industry is the very definition of nascent. HURRY UP

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