The Players and Pretenders of Nanotech

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Present Value for Pretenders

Present Value for Pretenders 05/25/2004 04:26 PM
James Early tackles the basics of discounted cash-flow analysis.

Pretenders to the throne

Pretenders to the throne 08/12/2004 09:23 AM
Which of our recent Cinderellas -- including Hilary Duff, Anne Hathaway and Julia Stiles -- really deserves to wear the glass slippers?

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap 05/26/2004 06:02 AM
The Rio Cali is our favorite player of the bunch -- hands-down. This player is especially appealing for its great functionality and excellent interface design. By Mathew Honan, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Nomic World: By the players, for the
players

Nomic World: By the players, for the
players 05/26/2004 03:15 PM
[This is an edited version of the talk I gave last fall at the State of Play conference.] I'm sort of odd-man-out in a Games and Law conference, in that my primary area of inquiry isn't games but social software. Not only am I not a lawyer, I don't even spend most of my time thinking about game problems. I spend my time thinking about software that supports group interaction across a fairly wide range of social patterns. So, instead of working from case law out, which has been a theme here (and here's where I insert the "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer) I'm going to propose a thought experiment looking from the outside in. And I want to pick up on something that Julian [Dibbell] said earlier about game worlds: 'users are the state.' The thought experiment I want to propose is to agree with that sentiment, and to ask "How far can we go in that direction?" Instead of looking for the places where game users are currently suing or fighting one another, forcing the owners of various virtual worlds to deal with these things one crisis at a time, I want to ask the question "What would happen if we wanted to build a world where we maximized the amount of user control? What would that look like?" I'm going to make that argument in three pieces. First, I'm going to do a little background on group structure and the tension between the individual and the group. Then I want to contrast briefly governance in real and virtual worlds. Finally I want to propose a thought experiment on placing control of online spaces in the hands of the users. - More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/nomic.html

What Can Nanotech Do for You?

What Can Nanotech Do for You? 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
While tiny technology, such as minuscule robots that take inventory or scan the bloodstream for signs of disease, never fails to amaze, it also tends to generate skepticism over the extent of its practical applications. But experts say that nanotechnology is already benefiting a range of industries and is poised to deliver significant advances.

Nanotech or Nano-Not?

Nanotech or Nano-Not? 04/18/2004 05:39 PM

Nanotech Undies

Nanotech Undies 06/24/2005 04:02 PM

I'm going to give you two possible methods for keeping your panties fresh and odor free. Please choose one:

1. Purchase Green-Shield Underwear, which uses nanotechnology to create a negative ionic field near your junk to repel bacteria while increasing circulation and leaching toxins from the body. This underwear also absorbs "far-infrared rays" and cause your cells to vibrate a higher frequency which speeds up metabolism and helps you eliminate wastes.

2. Wash your stinky underpants.

I'm going to let you all mull that one over and get back to me, but I'm going for #1. The more untested, chemically treated fabric I can press against my Bobs-Yer-Uncle the better.

The cleanest underwear in town [TaipeiTimes]

Nanotech snoozery

Nanotech snoozery 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
This is the second time I've listened to a talk about nanotech from someone representing the Foresight Institute (the first was Robert Drexler), and both...

Nanotech: Dissecting What It Is, and
Isn't

Nanotech: Dissecting What It Is, and
Isn't 03/29/2005 03:06 PM
TheStreet.com Mar 29 2005 5:59PM GMT

Nanotech and Kabbalah

Nanotech and Kabbalah 09/02/2004 08:11 AM
David Pescovitz: At the NanoBot, Howard Lovy writes about the philosophical connection between nanotechnology and the Jewish mysticism of Kabbalah. This is not newage (rhymes with "sewage") mumbo-jumbo, but rather an informed, passionate, and moving thought-exercise about the "spirit" of science:

"...the most brilliant men of Medieval Jewry, shut out of any other profession in which their intellect could be used, spent what I used to think was a complete waste of mind power, reflecting on the minutia of Jewish law – taking the Torah and extrapolating a complex system of laws. Creating, codifying, obsessively ordering and numbering a spiritual system into a logical system.

But the smaller you get, the more you see the logic and order break down. The laws of physics seem to change. The smaller the size, the deeper the mystery and the more the orderly turns chaotic. It all meets on the nanoscale and below, where spirit/spirituality meets the individual components of organisms, where sand meets wave, where analog meets digital, where spirit meets matter."

Link

Should Nanotech Be Regulated?

Should Nanotech Be Regulated? 04/07/2005 01:03 PM

Nanotech Moving Up to Forefront

Nanotech Moving Up to Forefront 08/01/2004 08:03 AM
Hankooki Aug 1 2004 11:45AM GMT

This Nanotech Deserves Respect

This Nanotech Deserves Respect 07/30/2004 01:54 PM
The Hidden Gem Flamel still looks good for the future.

Nanotech -- Old Rules for a New Science

Nanotech -- Old Rules for a New Science 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
TheStreet.com Mar 31 2005 1:12PM GMT

Prince accused on nanotech

Prince accused on nanotech 07/12/2004 08:47 AM
Fertility expert Lord Winston accuses Prince Charles of feeding unfounded suspicion of science in society.

Clothing Chemistry and Nanotech

Clothing Chemistry and Nanotech 12/31/2004 12:32 PM
Technocrat.net Dec 31 2004 4:34PM GMT

IBM Claims Nanotech Breakthrough

IBM Claims Nanotech Breakthrough 12/08/2003 03:29 AM
AP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 2:36AM ET

HP comes up with nanotech transistor
replacement

HP comes up with nanotech transistor
replacement 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Will transistors go the way of vacuum tubes? A discovery by HP could set the stage for nanoscale computing down the line.

IBM claims nanotech breakthrough

IBM claims nanotech breakthrough 12/08/2003 02:21 AM
Boston Globe Dec 8 2003 1:02AM ET

Teaching Nanotech to Swim

Teaching Nanotech to Swim 07/24/2004 11:09 PM

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“One of the cultural icons of nanotechnology is the image of the surgical team from the 1966 science fiction movie, Fantastic Voyage, motoring along through the bloodstream of scientist Jan Benes. Everyone knows the image is about as closely related to real-life nanotechnology as Jurassic Park is to genomics-still, it’s hard to shake. The scene, and others like it have inspired a generation of researchers to pursue technologies that may one day deliver cancer-fighting drugs…

Prince Charles gives forth on nanotech

Prince Charles gives forth on nanotech 07/12/2004 07:05 AM
No grey goo apocalypse, but caution required

GE Flexes Its Nanotech Muscle

GE Flexes Its Nanotech Muscle 07/07/2004 02:49 PM
Breakthrough signals enhanced electronics -- and bodes well for dividends.

IBM Storage Breakthrough Goes Nanotech

IBM Storage Breakthrough Goes Nanotech 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Scientists at IBM have announced that they can compress massive amounts of data into 1 trillion bits per square inch -- nearly 20 times greater than the most dense magnetic storage solutions currently available.

Nanotech takes aim at transistors

Nanotech takes aim at transistors 02/01/2005 09:51 PM
Scientists make a step towards creating tiny structures that could one day replace transistor technology.

Nanotech funding to grow to US$8.6
billion

Nanotech funding to grow to US$8.6
billion 08/16/2004 04:43 AM
CNET Asia Aug 16 2004 8:55AM GMT

Nanotech frauds imminent, warns VC

Nanotech frauds imminent, warns VC 06/18/2004 04:55 AM
Except the ones I've invested in, of course...

Israel's nanotech-powered superhero

Israel's nanotech-powered superhero 03/28/2005 01:16 PM
David Pescovitz: Over at the NanoBot, Howard Lovy introduces us to Israel's first "nanotechnology-powered" superhero, The Golem. The superhero stars in a new daily comic strip hosted on Ynetnews.

Howard writes: Golems are clay creatures of Jewish legend brought to "life" by rabbis who can master the correct Kabbalistic incantations. Mary Shelley was said to have been inspired by them when she created Frankenstein. The most famous of these Jewish Frankensteins was the 17th century Golem of Prague, created out of clay and brought to life with one word, "emet" ("truth"), placed on its forehead by Rabbi Jehudah Loew...

Since then, the golem has come to symbolize how the "creations" of man can go horribly wrong. I wonder if this comic's creators are aware that if they are to stay true to the golem legends their superhero must ultimately fail. The moral of the Jewish myth is that it is dangerous for mankind to "play God," or to "alter nature" by giving life to clay...

In this modern version, it's government bureaucracy that goes awry. The first comic begins with Professor Finstein's "Israeli Super Hero Project" about to become the victim of budget cuts. He convinced the government to build it using "these very small appliances," which turned out to be nanobots, of course. What he did not say was that he neded "67 trillion" of them to build a proper super hero. "Oy vey .." exclaims the guy from the Israeli budget office.

Link to Nanobot post, Link to the comic

Nanotech funding sees big increase

Nanotech funding sees big increase 08/16/2004 11:49 AM
globetechnology.com Aug 16 2004 3:45PM GMT

Nanotech bill gets Bush's approval

Nanotech bill gets Bush's approval 12/04/2003 05:54 PM
President Bush signs a bill that will provide $3.7 billion over four years to research and promote the commercial evolution of nanotechnology.

Wall Street falls for nanotech

Wall Street falls for nanotech 07/13/2004 06:55 PM
globetechnology.com Jul 13 2004 11:13PM GMT

New International Nanotech Community
Launches

New International Nanotech Community
Launches 09/06/2004 02:03 AM
Douglas Connect announces the launch of InterNanotech, a new online community for international researchers in computational and experimental nanoscience and nanotechnology. By holding regular seminar sessions over the internet, supported by virtual communication and networking tools, InterNanotech is designed to facilitate rapid communication of new research results and discoveries between different disciplines and geographic regions. [PRWEB Sep 6, 2004]

Scientists call for nanotech caution

Scientists call for nanotech caution 07/29/2004 11:38 AM
No grey goo apocalypse likely, but still...

AMD, Infineon to spend $200m on nanotech
know-how

AMD, Infineon to spend $200m on nanotech
know-how 09/07/2004 04:54 AM
Yet another Dresden plant

Concerns That Nanotech Label Is Overused

Concerns That Nanotech Label Is Overused 04/12/2004 12:54 AM
What exactly is nanotechnology? The definition is no longer academic as more investors become attracted to anything that carries a nanotech label.

Nanotech leads way to quantum computing

Nanotech leads way to quantum computing 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
PC Magazine UK Jul 30 2004 12:37PM GMT

Nanotech funding to grow to $8.6 billion

Nanotech funding to grow to $8.6 billion 08/16/2004 12:28 AM
CNET News.com Aug 16 2004 4:46AM GMT

Nanotech Memory Chips Might Soon Be a
Reality

Nanotech Memory Chips Might Soon Be a
Reality 06/07/2004 01:08 AM
New York Times Jun 7 2004 5:55AM GMT

Report advises caution over nanotech use

Report advises caution over nanotech use 08/10/2004 01:34 AM
123Bharath.com Aug 10 2004 5:37AM GMT

Nanotech investment climate warms up

Nanotech investment climate warms up 12/22/2003 07:45 PM
ZDNet Dec 22 2003 5:49PM ET
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