{"id":207,"date":"2001-09-10T04:22:56","date_gmt":"2001-09-10T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=207"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:45","slug":"nano-nano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/09\/10\/nano-nano\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano-nano!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16863,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlep-i.nwsource.com\\\/local\\\/38334_nanoscience10.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20011109213422\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlep-i.nwsource.com:80\\\/local\\\/38334_nanoscience10.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 15:19:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:45:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 07:19:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 18:58:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 01:55:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 01:55:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16864,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0553380966\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0553380966\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16865,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0553380958\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314152203\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0553380958\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0553380958\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 01:24:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 12:44:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 16:59:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 07:16:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 07:19:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 08:09:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 12:02:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 12:02:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just something that I find all sorts of nifty. <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlep-i.nwsource.com\/local\/38334_nanoscience10.shtml\" title=\"Seattle P-I: Northwest UW, Richland lab join in brave new world of nano\">According to an article in today&#8217;s Seattle P-I<\/a>, Washington is going to house the hub of one of the centers for nanotechnology research. Nanotech has been one of the recent sci-fi concepts to really spark my imagination, especially after reading Neal Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553380966\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The Diamond Age\">The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady&#8217;s Illustrated Primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson burst upon the sci-fi scene with his second book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553380958\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Snow Crash\">Snow Crash<\/a>, which I babbled about a couple weeks ago when I was re-reading it. In The Diamond Age, Stephenson does for nanotechnology what he did for the internet and virtual reality in Snow Crash &#8212; takes today&#8217;s best existing ideas and theories and extrapolates them forward into the future to explore where the technologies can take us. It&#8217;s a fascinating read, and with the current apparent stagnation of the space program and George Bush&#8217;s restrictions on genetic research, nanotech seems to be one of the few sci-fi concepts with near-future possibilities. Going to be a lot of fun to see where all this could lead in the next 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Diamond Age, Stephenson does for nanotechnology what he did for the internet and virtual reality in Snow Crash &#8212; takes today&#8217;s best existing ideas and theories and extrapolates them forward into the future to explore where the technologies can take us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2038],"tags":[4095,514],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tech","tag-neal-stephenson","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}