Bailouts, Atlas Shrugged, and Nanotechnology

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Anyone familiar with the novel Atlas Shrugged will recognize some similarities between the events of the novel and the current economic predicament. In the novel the devaluation of the ideas of innovators in comparison to the needs of the masses eventually leads to economic decline followed by government bailouts followed ...

Alternative Nanoelectronics Update (Nanosys)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

In Vol. 3, issue 4 of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal I reviewed four alternative approaches to future nanoelectronics devices taken by D-Wave (quantum computing), Hewlett-Packard (molecular electronics), Nantero (carbon nanotube switches), and Nanosys (nanowire macroelectronics). Of the four companies Nanosys seems to be in the best position at ...