Nanotechnology

   In the widely known Russian writer Nikolai Leskov's "Southpaw" (1881) is an interesting snippet:

   "If, - said - was better tinyscope that five million increases, so you were pleased to have - said - to see that each workman podkovinke name exposed: a Russian artist that did a horseshoe Nikolai Leskov "Lefty"

   The increase in the 5 000 000 times provide modern electronic and atomic force microscopes, are considered the basic tools of nanotechnology. Thus, the literary hero Lefty can be considered the first in the history of "nanotechnology".

   The above Feynman in a lecture in 1959 "There are many places at the bottom" ideas on how to create and use nanomanipulators coincide almost word for word, with a fantastic story of the famous Soviet writer Boris Zhitkova "Mikroruki" published in 1931.

   Several adverse effects of uncontrolled development of nanotechnology are described in works of M. Crichton ("Roy"), S. Lema ("View on site" and "Peace on Earth"), S. Lukyanenko ("There's nothing to divide"), S. King (" gray trash ").

   The protagonist of the novel "Transhuman" Yuri Nikitin - Head of nanotechnology corporation and the first man, experienced the effect of medical nanorobots.

   In the sci-fi series "Stargate: Atlantis" is mentioned race "replicators" that arose as a result of a failed experiment with the use of the Ancients and the description of various options for the use of nanotechnology.