Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Maya Blue

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The chapter “What is Technology?” in my book Technology Challenged forced me to deal with the definition of technology as “applied science.”...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Walk This Way

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Pedestrians do not run across streets in Shanghai . Cars and scooters do not sto p for p edestrians in Shanghai . And yet, I saw no one h...
Monday, February 18, 2008

The Medicated Child

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I just watched a PBS Frontline investigation called The Medicated Child . Why do we use technology? In this case, for health. Mental condi...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Waste = Food

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Waste equals food is one of the most striking (and memorable) p rinci p les that Bill McDonough p resented at NASA Ames (Mountain View, Cal...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Has Technology Made Us So Clean That We’re Sick?

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In Technology Challenged I wrote about the im p act of water su p p ly, sanitation, and hygiene technology. The chapter on how technology ...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Evaluating Toiletry Technology

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I am sho p p ing for an electric razor. Years ago—maybe 20—my father gave me one for Christmas and last month a small p iece shielding...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Nanotechnology Literacy

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Foresight Nanotech Institute's 2007 Unconference included sessions to brainstorm nanotechnology literacy. I facilitated a diverse group...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

What If the iPod Nano Really Were Nano

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What if Apple's MP3 player dubbed "Nano" really had dimensions on the scale of nanometers (billionths of a meter)? That quest...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Putting Rustlike Crystals on ICE

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Every year I spend four fabulous weeks teaching precocious high school students about nanotechnology. The COSMOS program at the University ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Myth in Technology

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“ The press, the coverage of the war, and the buildup to the war, was almost exclusively focused on the power of our weaponry and the might ...