Week 8- Nanotech + Art

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Nanotechnology involves tiny units of measurements, which ultimately create smaller and smaller inventions. This science is done on molecular levels with atomic particles, unable to be seen by the naked eye.  According to Victoria Vesna’s intro to this week’s topic, nanotech “introduces a new area of life beyond what we know, pushing us over the edge into the 21^st century.” Dr. Gimzewski, a Nano scientist, says that nanotechnology has the “potential to change the world- both in economic and social values.” The combination of art and science has no boundaries and continues to grow into technologies we cannot even imagine or predict.  

So the pressing question is how far can we go? Technology is shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller. It is hard to stop your mind from wondering and imagining a world years from now.  An online article, “Making Stuff” stated that the “electronic world has found the key is to make things smaller.”  Phones, cameras, computers, doctors, music have all been revolutionized by this concept of consolidating.

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In my short 21 years on earth, I have seen this technological shift especially within the music industry. I remember boom boxes, then Walkman CD players, then Ipods and now strictly cell phones. Listening to my own music let alone a playlists used to be extremely difficult to do outside my bedroom. A power outlet had to be close, along with CD free of scratches. Now, I can mix and match music on my phone and play it out loud, in the car or on a bluetooth speaker on the beach. It has become a social experience that travels and not just closed bedroom door, headphones in tune out the world culture. The future of nanotech and art has no boundaries. Before we realize it, nano technology and artistic features will create an efficient, convenient, bite size way of time travel! 

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Resources 

"Apple Press Info." Apple. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015. <https://www.apple.com/pr/products/ipodhistory/>.

Gimzewski, Jim, and Victoria Vesna. The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of Fact & Fiction in the Construction of a New Science. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2012. <http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/publications/publications/02-03/JV_nano/JV_nano_artF5VG.htm>.

"Making Stuff." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 May 2015. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html#making-stuff-smaller>.

"Walkman MP3 Players." - Portable MP3 Players & Personal Speakers Sony Store. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015. <http://store.sony.com/walkman-mp3-players/cat-27-catid-All-MP3-Players>. 

"What Is Nanotechnology?" What Is Nanotechnology? N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2015. <http://www.nano.gov/nanotech-101/what/definition>. 

"20 Most Important Inventions of the Next 10 Years: Nanotech Computing." Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, n.d. Web. 24 May 2015. <http://www.bloomberg.com/ss/09/02/0225_inventions/9.htm>.