PeerPower : Next big thing is really small: "On November 9, 1989, a new era dawned. The event that ushered in this era had nothing to do with the historic collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Instead, the momentous event took place in the quiet confines of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
It was on that day that two IBM scientists, Don Eigler and Erhard Schweizer, purposely manipulated individual atoms to build a structure, a simple IBM logo. What made the logo so special was that it was created out of only 35 xenon atoms…"
Friday, April 09, 2010
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