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The 3/09 Scientific American article “The World’s Smallest Radio” by Ed Regis talks about using carbon nanotubes as super miniature radios that could be used as a communication element for nanothings like pills that seek out cancer cells in the human body or devices for search and rescue in collapsed mines. The nanotube radio has the potential to change the world around us in the same way the microchip computer processor changed it.  The computer chip’s phenomenal impact on society was anticipated 30 years ago by Christopher Evans in The Micro Millennium . Evans predicted the computer chip would change the world, and it did. The same thing might happen with the nanotube radio. Who knows? Maybe future businesses will be using nanotube technology the way businesses today use microchip technology.