What is nanotechnology?   Will it change the world, as some have promised?  What is all this about molecular machines in our blood?   Let the Next Big Thing video on Nanotechnology explain all!

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"The most enthralling programme I saw on television last week - in fact I have seen nothing so fascinating for months" Christopher Dunkley on "The Next Big Thing" Financial Times (Aug 16, 2000)

Hear what\\\'s going on in nanoscale science (a thousandth of a thousandth of a millimetre!), and find out what the experts think is just around the corner.

Chaired by Colin Blakemore, featuring panellists Sir Harry Kroto (Nobel Prize winner from Sussex University), Jim Gimzewski (leading nano-technologist from IBM), Peter Dobson (Professor at Oxford University) and panel regular Jacqui McGlade.