Will small be beautiful? Making policies for our nanotech future

McCray outlines the history of U.S. funding of nanotechnology research, and examines how advocates have successfully marketed nanotechnology through their optimistic depiction of societies and economies improved through this new technology, spurring on the adoption of the U.S National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000 and the availability of billions of dollars for research and commercial development. The author examines the historical roots of and the rational for the U.S.