Nanotechnology: Views for consideration of the Royal Society and
Royal Academy of Engineering. (based on ‘The Nanoneme Syndrome’
Technoetic Arts 1, 2003, 7-24)  The following edited excerpts
may be of value to your mission. As a member of the Californian
Nanosystems Institute and researcher at IBM Zurich Research
Laboratories for 19 years together with the chair of Design |
Media arts at UCLA, we addressed issues in nanotechnology that
are all too often ignored: culture. I hope it stimulates
interest in some of the issues to address.  Nanotechnology is
more a new science than a technology, and the industry being
constructed around it, predictably uses old ideas and imagery.
During its current rise to prominence, a strange propagandist
“nanometer” has emerged in our midst without being clearly
realized by any of the participants. It is layered with often
highly unlikely ideas of nanotech products that range from
molecular sensors in underwear, smart washing machines that know
how dirty the clothes are, to arti