The point about nanotechnology is that it sets out deliberately to exploit the strange properties found in these very small worlds.

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Small worlds resemble each other first.

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Hirose says the penchant for creating small, controllable worlds has nothing to do with escapism or isolationism.

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The difference is that there was no formal VC class back then: merely investment-minded second-tier deal-makers who did their wheeling and dealing in the interstices of the stock market, Robber Baron and small-entrepreneur worlds.

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Because as marketers, the mobile trend will make the broadband and television worlds look small and feeble in comparison.

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Puris and Bernbach now know both worlds, having met with 465 small media outfits, including "a lot of not-so-good ones, " Puris says.

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They then entice players to spend small sums to better participate in elaborate virtual worlds that suck up a few moments, and a few pennies, from users at a time.

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As a child, they provided an escape from a small rural environment and fed my endless curiosity and thirst for worlds bigger and more fantastic than this one.

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