Medicine and art has been a topic for many weeks now. This week’s topic again touched upon this idea. Gimzewski’s lecture this week touched upon the idea of Dexler’s Vision. This was very fascinating to me as it was a foundation for nanotechnology. While these lectures touched upon many fields that nanotechnology is involved in, I too have a couple of interesting ideas. For a couple of quarters now I have been taken both organic chemistry and life science 3 and 4 which involve studying the basic structures of life and applying them to bigger ideas. By learning the basic building blocks of everything I think you truly get to learn how not only that object works but how it compares, differs and interacts with other items.
An application of nanotechnology that encompasses art is jewelry making. In high school jewelry class was a required class in the art department, however, I never knew that would also have so much science behind that. Taken all of the chemistry classes I now know that many stones are creates by a lattice which makes it sparkle from its many edges. In short, the jewelry I was creating in highschool was just tiny little molecules on top of the other creating great masterpieces. I think artists that choose to study art and nanotech have an advantage as they are able to create art from building blocks to great creations.
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Gimzewski, Jim, and Victoria Vesna. "The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of fact & fiction in the construction of a new science." N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2017.
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"Protecting Human Health: Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics." United States National Nanotechnology Initiative, n.d. Web. 28 May 2017.
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You made some really good points about the readings and lectures and it was very interesting to me. You used things that I did not really think of and it was cool to see the readings interpreted in a different way.
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