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• 32 Merkle and the case of the misleading metaphor

  If you took all the nanotechnology metaphors I've used over the years and stacked them up end to end, they would reach from Earth to the far side of Uranus and back. But all the good metaphors I've used could dance on the head of pin, their substance a thousand times thinner than the width of a human hair.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Nov 07, 2003

• 31 The Golems of our Era

  Here's a new take on the old thespian question: "What's my motivation?" "Existential questions surfaced: Are the brain and the soul the same, are they connected? And more: Is nanotechnology a good thing, is it a dangerous thing?"

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 30, 2003

• 30 Journalism from the bottom up

  Miscommunication of science is really all my fault. Well, not mine, specifically, but all of us in science/technology niche media who are so impressed with ourselves that we fail to do our jobs – properly communicate complex and nuanced ideas to the public, and to the mainstream journalists who read us.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 24, 2003

• 29 Diary of Nano Madmen

  Now that the Foresight Institute is finally getting its props, who's going to inherit nano-madmen mantle? Even the cult of cryonics is getting a stamp of respectability.

  in Culture — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 22, 2003

• 28 How nano is the Valley?

  Does it make a nano bit of difference who wins the governor's office today? Small Times correspondent Michael Fitzgerald reports on some nano nail-biting in the Bay Area.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 07, 2003

• 27 The nano-brain barrier

  It's amazing to me how the Action Group on EROSION, Technology and Concentration can come out in immediate opposition to a technology that prevents ... EROSION.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 06, 2003

• 26 The Napster of Nano

  How to prevent a feared "nano divide" from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy? Nanotech file sharing.

  in Sci/Tech — by Howard Lovy — on Oct 05, 2003

• 25 'When Pants Attack'

  In another confluence of fashion fiction and reality, our high-IQ hero decides that picking up and folding his pants is really a waste of time, so he designs "self-folding smart pants" by embedding them with something vaguely called "nanochips" — yes, "nano" is simply another synonym for anything high-tech.

  in Video — by Howard Lovy — on Sep 29, 2003

• 24 Nothing like nano incitement to rouse the masses

  I've been correctly accused of out-of-proportion obsession over the Greenpeace report on nanotechnology, so let me explain why I dwelled on it.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Sep 26, 2003

• 23 They got some crazy lil nano there

  A Kansas City Star nanotech story is well-written and accurate, yet it also shows why specialists in any field, from nanotechnology to piano technology, almost always rail against their local newspaper for promoting misconceptions about subjects that they hold dear.

  in Politics — by Howard Lovy — on Sep 23, 2003