Adjust For Inflation (Score 1)

The real problem here is the 'Six Million dollar' bit. Even if nano-tech gives all the bonuses that some of its developers think it will, it's an expensive technology to develop.

Six million US dollars, in 1976, equates to a shade under 19 billion in 2001 dollars. How's that for expensive?

Numbers courtesy of the Inflation Calculator at
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ .