Thirdly, when the media talks about nanotechnology, it is talking about small particles and science used in the medical, pharmaceutical and textile industries which are sold to us as avant-garde and beneficial to us on selfish and impractical levels. The current scope of nano product marketing is still new and is being desperately waved by our strange society as a banner of newness and to create the necessary dissatisfaction with out current products, methods and materials. Most of the products that hail ‘nano-something’ are the simple unessential flotsam and jetsam of the shipwreck of our modern postindustrial age. Sunscreens, socks and self-cleaning surfaces, nanotech has gone mainstream as a marketing tool in the most insidious manner. From microprocessors to bike parts, everyday products are starting to incorporate “nanotechnology”.Nanotech to put paint in the past (Apr. 10, 2005), Fujitsu Siemens eyes nanotech for chips (Mar. 10, 2005), Moore says nanoelectronics face tough challenges (Mar. 9, 2005),Intel sketches out nanotechnology road map (Oct. 25, 2004), Nanoparticles for energy, explosions (Oct. 21, 2004),Nanotechnology aims to cure smelly feet (Sept. 27, 2004) are a few pitiful examples. There are almost 800 more products, and more being introduced daily, which tout some kind of “nano” something. This is to be expected, but is not the ultimate configuration of nanoscience of the future. An inventory of nano products can be seen at the Nanotechnology Project in the Project on Emerging Nanotechnology, sponsored in part by the Pew Charitable Trust and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and can be located at www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer. As stated, the majority of the products are simply an extension of the new materials boom, and do not necessarily represent the ground truth of current nanoscience.
Fourth – nanoscience impinges on our long association with our ‘alien’ friends and upon the subject of the end of the truth embargo and Full Disclosure.
Steven Bassett has illustrated that President Elect Obama is assembling what could be viewed as a cabinet and staff geared well for disclosure. His selections all share some thread that could be construed as a preparatory effort to move toward the goal of a release of information relative to ‘alien’ interference. The problem with the disclosure of all information relative to the association with aliens is the action we have undertaken in connection with that presence. Without a comprehensive amnesty program, admission of all the facts regarding alien association with our government (or, quasi-governmental agencies) will result in the disclosure of some dark deeds. Given our torts condition, this will give the overabundance of lawyers our society creates something to do for many, many years. The syphilis crimes at Tuskegee Alabama will pale in comparison to the release of all the facts to date relative to a full disclosure. The technology transferred by various means in connection to the ‘alien’ presence alone is a vast ocean of scary stories, and there be monsters there. Corporations and agencies are mired in this technology and have done things in secret which would be inadvisable to reveal, given the nature of our courts system. But of course, this will not be allowed.
An innuendo made on the Military.com site, purportedly from the Army War College, suggests that the Obama administration will face a “strategic shock” within the first eight months on the job. Only our myopic attention to the melting economy will prevent us from seeing this come our way, but our government is intently preparing for calamity and has made plans accordingly.
So while our good President Elect may have visions of letting this cat out of the bag – which thing we really do need now more than a new iPod – the ancient Military-Industrial-Corporate-Congressional-Complex will not easily let it fly. Without a blanket amnesty policy, people will go to prison forever and be sued, with their corporate sponsors, back to the Stone Age. And if the full extent of contemporary nanoscience were revealed, as it would be if a complete truth embargo were lifted, the conscious public would panic.
Far from being a utopian enabler, nanoscience has the profound ability to alter the very molecules and atoms of our material world, and our genetics. By using materials at hand, molecular assemblers can rearrange elements into whatever configuration is desired by the programmer. As DNA assembles life based on a code passed on to each succeeding generation, a similar code will enable nano-machines to build whatever their designers can imagine.
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