Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Nanotech
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The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in film. One of those projects has been the development of a couple of blogs to track that. The first of these is underway…
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In their paper “Genetically Modified Theology: The Religious Dimensions of Public Concerns About Agricultural Biotechnology” Celia Deane-Drummond, Robin Grove-White, and Bronislaw Szerszynski talk about the way different groups of people – including scientists, politicians, and everyday people on the street – talk about biotechnology (as well as other technological developments). This creates environments where technology,…
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The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology have collated the material from their nanotechnology workshop held in Wellington earlier this year. Summary documents, primers and video footage at Nanotech Workshop 2009 – MoRST.
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The Science & Religion Today blog picked up on some interesting things recently. Science & Religion Today: Bio-“Graphic” Novels of Real-Life Superheroes Science & Religion Today: Can Science Deal With God? From their Closer to Truth TV/Web series Science & Religion Today: Religion Affects Reaction to Nanotech
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This seems all the rage at the moment – will we have chameleonware/chameleonware (from Neal Asher’s Polity books), changeling nets (Babylon 5) or invisibility cloaks (Harry Potter) at some point? Threading Light Through the Opaque Invisibility-Cloak Materials Bend Light “Backward” Visible Light Enters the Bizarro World
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An impressive piece of engineering. A single carbon-nanotube molecule that serves simultaneously as all the essential components of a radio — antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier and demodulator. Wow! See World’s First Nanoradio Could Lead to Subcellular Remote-Control Interfaces
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Links to a couple of images I saw recently on Mondolithic Studios’ web site. Different Futures. The choices we make now affect those who follow. Dark Energy. Resonates for me with William Blake’s lines from ‘Auguries of Innocence’, as well as with the dreams of the nanotechnologists. To see a World in a Grain of…
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After managing to find this week’s NZ Listener (it gets delivered 7 days before the week it’s for, and often gets misplaced) I see the lead article is on the accelerating pace of technological change. A quick skim though highlights that it picks up on genetics, robotics and nanotechnology in the typical popular fashion. I’ll…
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Picked up a copy of Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids by Sidney Perkowitz this week from the university bookshop. It looks quite interesting and I admit that once I saw the blurb on the back about science fiction movies – just after I’d edited some similar ideas in my introduction – I was…
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A few articles out recently that pick up on the potential of nanotechnology for the purposes of human therapy and enhancement. Popular Mechanics has an article Redefining The Human: The Upgradable You which covers a range of technological developments relating to nanotechnology among other things. The forever techno-optimistic Ray Kurzweil has an article in the…