By theway, these changes have the added benefit ofcreating incentives within the industry to ensure that no one company can ever threaten to bring down the whole economy.
Onewayof interpreting the changes is that rather than creating new opportunities, they merely legalise what was already a widespread informal economy of clandestine private enterprise.
Scientific discoveries at nanoscale -- one billionth of a meter -- are finding their way out ofthe lab and into production, creating more efficient computer chips and coatings for glass.