Mody, Cyrus C. M. (Author)
Perspectives on Science
Volume: 17
Pages: 111--122
Publication date: 2009
Language: English
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue on the history of nanotechnology.
Historians, sociologists, and the practitioners themselves have long been at a loss to deane what nanotechnology is and what holds it together.3 Yet thinking of nanotechnology as one plot in a community garden deºates the assumptions behind those questions. No formal logic or scientiac necessity holds nanotechnology together, any more than most community garden plots have a formal logic. Similarly, some practitioners feel nanotechnology is old wine in new bottles. It is a charge I hear from historians as well---nanotechnology is just reheated chemistry and materials science. True enough! But many garden plots contain a mix of heirloom varieties and new hybrids. Nanotechnology contains plenty of crops borrowed from chemistry and materials science, but juxtaposed in new ways unseen in those disciplines.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Article Nordmann, Alfred (2009) Invisible Origins of Nanotechnology: Herbert Gleiter, Materials Science, and Questions of Prestige. Perspectives on Science (p. 123).
Article Johnson, Ann (2009) Modeling Molecules: Computational Nanotechnology as a Knowledge. Perspectives on Science (p. 144).
Article Gallo, Jason (2009) The Discursive and Operational Foundations of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in the History of the National Science Foundation. Perspectives on Science (p. 174).
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