Executive Summary -- Microscopic machines and faster electronics -- Materials, means and ends -- Design as process -- The stuff of life -- Blueprint and building material -- Hybrids -- Proteins -- Catching a bug - and putting it to work -- Better building through organic chemistry -- Chain reactions -- Liquid crystals -- Natures building blocks - one at a time -- Order and growth -- Sowing crystals seeds -- Alchemy -- An organizing principle -- Delivering on the nanotech promise -- Self-assembling the far future -- Viruses and Proteins -- Polymers -- Molecules -- Scope and Scale -- Index.