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Howard Lovy
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Zyvex's Von Ehr on pixels, bits and stitches
Here's a bit more of my interview in Washington with James Von Ehr,
founder of Zyvex Corp., one of the first nanotechnology companies -- and
one that still dares to keep alive the dream of true molecular
manufacturing.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/zyvexs-von-ehr-on-pixels-bits-and.html
Whose nano matters?
The idea of manipulating atoms as easily as pixels and bits is a
software engineer's dream come true. To them, the world of
nanotechnology is an extension of their own digital worlds, a way to
make matter into something programmable. More on that here and here.
This makes the chemists in charge of public nanotech funding scratch
their heads. Their world is wet, sticky and biological. The engineers'
world is dry, programmable and, in the United States at least, largely
not publicly funded.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/whose-nano-matters.html
The Wonderful World of NanoKids
From the U.S. Department of Officially Sanctioned Imagination:
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/wonderful-world-of-nanokids.html
Nerd American Idol
From: Jennifer Foss
Subject: RE: Skin Science
This is my nerd dream come true. I wonder if I'm going to get recognized
in the grocery store now!
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nerd-american-idol.html
Here's the scoop
Hey, kids. Don't make me stop the nanocar. Can't we all just get along?
First, call yourselves by your real names. Chris Phoenix, you belong to
an advocacy organization. Tim Harper, you're a businessman who runs
business advocacy organizations. None of you are journalists -- at least
none that my old-style cigar-chompin'
"if-your-mother-says-she-loves-you-check-it-out" college journalism
instructor would recognize.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/heres-scoop.html
Good medicine, bad medicine
Robert Bradbury has some good news and some bad news about the National
Institutes of Health nanomedicine roadmap initiative shindig this week
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/good-medicine-bad-medicine.html
Nano gets tiny mention in S&E Indicators
Not much about nanotechnology in particular in 2004's Science and
Engineering Indicators, just released by the National Science Board.
Where nanotechnology is being measured, though, is again through the
prism of "public attitudes and understanding."
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nano-gets-tiny-mention-in-se.html
Choose your own irrational scenario
Take an hour or so to drink this in. It's a 143-page PDF file.
"Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis On The Basis Of A
Workshop Organized In Brussels On March 2004 By The Health And Consumer
Protection Directorate General Of The European Commission."
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/choose-your-own-irrational-scenario.html
'The hype and the fear'
There's an excellent Business Week interview today with Kristen
Kulinowski of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
at Rice University. Here's an excerpt:
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/hype-and-fear.html
Science blinded by culture
I'm fascinated by the work of cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell. I
spoke with her back in '98 or '99, when she first came to Intel and I
contributed occasional articles to the Detroit News science section. No
story came out of our interview at the time, but I remember how our
conversation helped open my eyes to an element of technology and
innovation that too many people in the science world neglect or negate:
the role of culture. Not just the role popular culture plays in the
adoption and acceptance of technology -- and I've pounded the keyboard
bloody trying to get that point across on this blog and in Small Times
columns -- but also ethnic, religious or national culture.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/science-blinded-by-culture.html
Everybody must get loaned
So, if after 20 years of schoolin' they put you on the day shift, don't
spend one too many mornings only a nano hobo, knock-knock-knockin' on
the NNI's door. Go stare into the vacuum of E2I and ask them, "Do you
want to make a deal?"
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/everybody-must-get-loaned.html
NanoBot and the 'unwieldy mass'
Thank you to Rocky Rawstern of Nanotechnology Now for the kind words in
his latest NanoNews-Now premium newsletter, where I allowed him to
reprint a couple of my blog posts.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanobot-and-unwieldy-mass.html
Space Popsicles
Cryonics enthusiasts: Wake up and read this!
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/space-popsicles.html
Nano sure is a piece of work
I've collected a few nanojob-related articles to help a correspondent
working on a story, and thought I'd share them here, too. I sure hope
this nanotech thing takes off. A lot of people are counting some nice
nanowork, if they can get it.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nano-sure-is-piece-of-work.html
It's easy being nano and green
More shameless bragging about our accomplishments over at my paying job.
Those who don't read Small Times might have been surprised by the
environmental work going on at the University of Oregon: UO patent opens
way for green nano. Those who do, already know: Nanotech's green side:
Cutting waste and risk, taming environmental fears.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/its-easy-being-nano-and-green.html
NanoSecond
Nanomaterials and a Fool's errand
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_08.html
NASA Funds Sci-Fi Technology
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_07.html
Bill Nye the Bucky Guy
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_05.html
How're ya gonna keep nanotubes down on the farm
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond.html
QuoteBot
If I were just setting out today to make that drive to the West Coast to
start a new business, I would be looking at biotechnology and
nanotechnology.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, quoted in Inc. magazine
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/quotebot_09.html
"The principal thing [the venture establishment] is doing wrong in
nanotech is funding companies with too much money."
-- Vinod Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
"The safest long-term prediction is that the most important nanotech
developments will be the unforeseen opportunities, something that we
could not predict today."
-- Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/quotebot.html
Advertise on the world's biggest nanoblog!
http://www.blogads.com/ipxbsempwzdpn/howardlovysnanobot/advertise
NanoBot Tipping Point
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T3HWJEXL7YLTON/058-3080933-1135229
Here's a bit more of my interview in Washington with James Von Ehr,
founder of Zyvex Corp., one of the first nanotechnology companies -- and
one that still dares to keep alive the dream of true molecular
manufacturing.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/zyvexs-von-ehr-on-pixels-bits-and.html
Whose nano matters?
The idea of manipulating atoms as easily as pixels and bits is a
software engineer's dream come true. To them, the world of
nanotechnology is an extension of their own digital worlds, a way to
make matter into something programmable. More on that here and here.
This makes the chemists in charge of public nanotech funding scratch
their heads. Their world is wet, sticky and biological. The engineers'
world is dry, programmable and, in the United States at least, largely
not publicly funded.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/whose-nano-matters.html
The Wonderful World of NanoKids
From the U.S. Department of Officially Sanctioned Imagination:
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/wonderful-world-of-nanokids.html
Nerd American Idol
From: Jennifer Foss
Subject: RE: Skin Science
This is my nerd dream come true. I wonder if I'm going to get recognized
in the grocery store now!
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nerd-american-idol.html
Here's the scoop
Hey, kids. Don't make me stop the nanocar. Can't we all just get along?
First, call yourselves by your real names. Chris Phoenix, you belong to
an advocacy organization. Tim Harper, you're a businessman who runs
business advocacy organizations. None of you are journalists -- at least
none that my old-style cigar-chompin'
"if-your-mother-says-she-loves-you-check-it-out" college journalism
instructor would recognize.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/heres-scoop.html
Good medicine, bad medicine
Robert Bradbury has some good news and some bad news about the National
Institutes of Health nanomedicine roadmap initiative shindig this week
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/good-medicine-bad-medicine.html
Nano gets tiny mention in S&E Indicators
Not much about nanotechnology in particular in 2004's Science and
Engineering Indicators, just released by the National Science Board.
Where nanotechnology is being measured, though, is again through the
prism of "public attitudes and understanding."
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nano-gets-tiny-mention-in-se.html
Choose your own irrational scenario
Take an hour or so to drink this in. It's a 143-page PDF file.
"Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis On The Basis Of A
Workshop Organized In Brussels On March 2004 By The Health And Consumer
Protection Directorate General Of The European Commission."
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/choose-your-own-irrational-scenario.html
'The hype and the fear'
There's an excellent Business Week interview today with Kristen
Kulinowski of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
at Rice University. Here's an excerpt:
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/hype-and-fear.html
Science blinded by culture
I'm fascinated by the work of cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell. I
spoke with her back in '98 or '99, when she first came to Intel and I
contributed occasional articles to the Detroit News science section. No
story came out of our interview at the time, but I remember how our
conversation helped open my eyes to an element of technology and
innovation that too many people in the science world neglect or negate:
the role of culture. Not just the role popular culture plays in the
adoption and acceptance of technology -- and I've pounded the keyboard
bloody trying to get that point across on this blog and in Small Times
columns -- but also ethnic, religious or national culture.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/science-blinded-by-culture.html
Everybody must get loaned
So, if after 20 years of schoolin' they put you on the day shift, don't
spend one too many mornings only a nano hobo, knock-knock-knockin' on
the NNI's door. Go stare into the vacuum of E2I and ask them, "Do you
want to make a deal?"
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/everybody-must-get-loaned.html
NanoBot and the 'unwieldy mass'
Thank you to Rocky Rawstern of Nanotechnology Now for the kind words in
his latest NanoNews-Now premium newsletter, where I allowed him to
reprint a couple of my blog posts.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanobot-and-unwieldy-mass.html
Space Popsicles
Cryonics enthusiasts: Wake up and read this!
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/space-popsicles.html
Nano sure is a piece of work
I've collected a few nanojob-related articles to help a correspondent
working on a story, and thought I'd share them here, too. I sure hope
this nanotech thing takes off. A lot of people are counting some nice
nanowork, if they can get it.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nano-sure-is-piece-of-work.html
It's easy being nano and green
More shameless bragging about our accomplishments over at my paying job.
Those who don't read Small Times might have been surprised by the
environmental work going on at the University of Oregon: UO patent opens
way for green nano. Those who do, already know: Nanotech's green side:
Cutting waste and risk, taming environmental fears.
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/its-easy-being-nano-and-green.html
NanoSecond
Nanomaterials and a Fool's errand
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_08.html
NASA Funds Sci-Fi Technology
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_07.html
Bill Nye the Bucky Guy
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond_05.html
How're ya gonna keep nanotubes down on the farm
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/nanosecond.html
QuoteBot
If I were just setting out today to make that drive to the West Coast to
start a new business, I would be looking at biotechnology and
nanotechnology.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, quoted in Inc. magazine
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/quotebot_09.html
"The principal thing [the venture establishment] is doing wrong in
nanotech is funding companies with too much money."
-- Vinod Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
"The safest long-term prediction is that the most important nanotech
developments will be the unforeseen opportunities, something that we
could not predict today."
-- Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2004/05/quotebot.html
Advertise on the world's biggest nanoblog!
http://www.blogads.com/ipxbsempwzdpn/howardlovysnanobot/advertise
NanoBot Tipping Point
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T3HWJEXL7YLTON/058-3080933-1135229