This week in lecture we learned about nanotechnology and art.  This week’s topic is interesting due to the fact that that with nanotechnology we cannot see the art with the naked eye.  Nanotechnology involves technology that is on a molecular level, therefore we cannot see it without this technology.  This technology has the potential to change the world scientifically as well as socially.  It is amazing to know that nanotechnology surrounds us as is involved in much of what we do, but we cannot see it due to its small size.

In Dr. Gimzewski’s lecture we learned about how nanotechnology was first conceptualized in 1959.  He talks about Richard Feynman, and his lecture on science at the atomic levels.  Feynman discusses how much potential there is within nanoparticles.  One of the most amazing things from his lecture was his point on writing pages from the Encyclopedia Britannica on a pinhead.  He not only proved that writing 25,000 pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica was possible, but that it was possible to write 260,000,000 pages.  He was able to prove his point that at a molecular level, the possibilities with art and science are endless, which really opened my eyes to how nanotechnology and art can go together.

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