Now that I'm a new dad again, I of course will not be going to see a
movie for a little while. But, I've been told, popular cinema continues
to weave the nano
meme into our culture. This, of course, is my clever segue into "Spider-man 2," which
Georgia Tech nano researcher Daniel Moore tells me contains more
nanobabble as some sort of scientific explanation for a supervillain's
supervillainous powers. I'll quote an excerpt from Moore's blog, but
I'll wait until the neonanoluddites grab a pen to write this down and
incorporate it in their next pseudoscientific
diatribe against nanotechnology … Ready? OK:
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Doc Ock's mechanical arms are attached to his brain using nanowires which
are real enough. Of course, something goes wrong with them, proving,
once again, that nanobelts are a far superior material to nanowires. I
mean, really, how many scientists need to be turned into psychopaths
for us to finally realize that nanobelts are better than nanowires?
More
here.
I love it. Hilarious. But, Dan, you realize that the next anti-nano nanoramous Googling up a storm and looking for information to prove an already solidified point on the horrors of nano is going to grab the phrase, "Something goes wrong, proving that … scientists need to be turned into psychopaths," and it will end up quoted in the next ETC Group report sent off to Prince Charles and Jim Hightower.
Oh, and my daughter tells me that "nanochips" are the science mumbo jumbo inside "The Stepford Wives" remake. I found this review:
The
problem with this film is that it could have been an absolute
masterpiece... if they'd managed to figure out how they wanted to do
the robot/brainwashed women. If you're paying attention during the film
you'll eventually realize that the filmmakers obviously couldn't decide
whether or not to go with robots, or with some sort of nano-tech
engineered chips being implanted in the womens brains. My guess is that
the nano-tech chips were what they decided on after shooting too many
scenes with robot oriented material. More here
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