Comments on: Nanotechnology takes on distressing new meaning in Australia http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Patrick Simpson http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5630 Patrick Simpson Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:26:43 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5630 This is a total grant scam. This guy needs to have ALL of his grant funding revoked and an investigation into his lab should be started ASAP. This entire project could not have cost more than 125 $US to run ( Cost of CD's and DVD plus fungus ). This is the kind of thing that the nanotech community needs to stomp on or we will be viewed in the same light a snake oil salesman where viewed. This is a total grant scam. This guy needs to have ALL of his grant funding revoked and an investigation into his lab should be started ASAP. This entire project could not have cost more than 125 $US to run ( Cost of CD’s and DVD plus fungus ).

This is the kind of thing that the nanotech community needs to stomp on or we will be viewed in the same light a snake oil salesman where viewed.

]]> By: Del Wilson http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5587 Del Wilson Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:55:34 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5587 While I agree that what the Aussie is doing with nano technology or molecular computing as he terms it looks pretty useless and even raises questions about his mindset, it does give a sense of the potential of this new technology. We have only began to explore where nanotech may take us. The things he is doing with it seem of little if any value to most of us but it does suggest that there may be new and powerfull ways to work with media that may have very beneficial applications. Bear in mind that technology is indifferent to value systems. There is a place for freewheeling 'what can I do with this' experimentation without any specific objective in mind. It spawns new ideas and new uses in a way that more focused and structured approaches ofttimes miss. While I agree that what the Aussie is doing with nano technology or molecular computing as he terms it looks pretty useless and even raises questions about his mindset, it does give a sense of the potential of this new technology. We have only began to explore where nanotech may take us. The things he is doing with it seem of little if any value to most of us but it does suggest that there may be new and powerfull ways to work with media that may have very beneficial applications. Bear in mind that technology is indifferent to value systems. There is a place for freewheeling ‘what can I do with this’ experimentation without any specific objective in mind. It spawns new ideas and new uses in a way that more focused and structured approaches ofttimes miss.

]]> By: divya sharma http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5538 divya sharma Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:03:02 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2003#comment-5538 in my view nanotechnology has a better prospective in the future to come. it has wide applications in the field of medicene and in the field of agriculture which are the amjor big challenges to face ...nanotechnology brings a better result compared to the other technologies present in todays era the articles published through this site. in my view nanotechnology has a better prospective in the future to come. it has wide applications in the field of medicene and in the field of agriculture which are the amjor big challenges to face …nanotechnology brings a better result compared to the other technologies present in todays era the articles published through this site.

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