The converntional narrative for a nanotechnoloyg origin story starts with US physicist Richard Feynman and his maours 1959 lecutre to the American Physical Society in 1959, titled 'There's lots of room art the bottom'. Next, a Janapanes engineer named Norio Taniguchi in his talk to the ???? in 1974 coined the phrase nanotechnology.This is followed the mention of K. Eric Drexler a US engineer who wrote the book, Engines of Creation which lauded the coming nanotechnology age and has haunted him since its publication in 1986.

The basic are not disputed however, it has been pointed out that science fiction writers got there first.Richard Heinlein