Imagine aguitar so tiny that you can ’t seeit with the human eye, but you can hearsound when its strings are pulled. Some people say the future is big, but when it comes to technology, theworld is getting smaller.
Nanotechnology( 纳米技术 )is the science that deals with doing things in a very small way,and it is being studied and developed all over the world. Micro-machines too small to been seenby the eye are being designed to do many things. And these machines no larger than in diameterthan a human hair, are extremely powerful. Many scientists say nanotechnology will produce thenext industrial revolution( 工业革命 ).
Nano comes from the Greek word dwarf . A nanometer is one-billion of a meter, The periodof the end of this sentence can contain about 100 micrometers, which in equal to 100,000nanometers.To understandthis new technology, we have to get rid of the normal ideas of size andstrength.
Minute( 微 小 的 ) robots , called “ nanorobots ” are being developed in the revolutionizemanufacturing. Instead of cars being produced on assembling line, for example, scientist predictthat carscan be built in a giant container into which raw material and machines have beenplaced.Thousands of nanorobots will direct the processandtell the machine what to do.
Micro-machines can also be used to make our environment safer. Today, poison chemicals arestored in containers or transported by trucks or trains. This is sometimes result in dangerous spills.But with nanotechnology, manufacturers could have their own tiny chemical factories. Theproduce would be no bigger than a sugar cube and would manufacture exactly the amount ofchemicals neededat the moment. No chemicals would needto be stored. The workplace would besafer,and the environment would be cleaner.
The author mentions guitar at the beginning of the passagein order to_______ .
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