READING	NAME	AGENDA ITEM
Eglash, R, “Material Virtuality.” http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/temp/macrosoc%20of%20nano.doc	Grant Boucher	The ancient Greek’s rudder requires the steersman and thus has no autonomy; the early modern clock can run autonomously but is not self-correcting; and 20^th century cybernetic technologies (with some early modern predecessors) were self-correcting but not self-assembling. Pg 9 If the future is self-assembling, what comes after that? Self-destroying? Evolving? Thinking? Just as replacing the door with a human can help us understand how we delegate human agency to our own inventions, replacing the dull predictability of ordinary bricks with alternative material virtues can help us understand the role of physical law in our social laws. Pg 17. Pretty cool to think about.
	James Johnston	Nanotechnology in the sense of being able to construct things from the ground up and dictating specific atomic arrangements is in itself authoritarian. I am having trouble invisioning how a democratic example of nanotechnology would work. Would it come from cognant self-assemblers that relay back to us there emotions and sentiments, or having the assemblers form unions and worker rights? Is there really a way that a technology based off of authoritarian principles can be turned into something democratic, applications might be, but are the mind sets of the users going to end up changing?
	Adam Neisius	The article put forth that the technologies used in a society reflected its domestic political philosophies. An interesting unexplored twist on this would be to re-examine the link between the technologies used by a society and not only its domestic political philosophy but also its foreign policy philosophy. What insights would this give? Going off of this examining traded technologies might give insight into exported philosophies.
	Andrew Nelson	"Rather than defining nanotechnology strictly in terms of size, we should seek a richer description of its intersections between its technical and social dimensions" (pg 1) I agree with this statement. Sometimes physical characteristics are not enough to define something. Sometimes the overall view of society on that product must be taken into account when defining it.
	Grant Kovach	"This latter observation should bring some questions to mind: Why have a category of technology which depends on the expectations of observers? Wouldn't constant exposure change our expectations?" If we exposed nanotechnology to the public constantly would their feeling about nanotech and the dangers of it change? Is it that people are just scared of the possibilities with advancing nanotechnology?



http://www.nanoarchitecture.net/	Andrew Starr	I really like the concepts of sites like this. By posting the most interesting news within a field, I believe sites like these can get people excited about a field. It provides a way for people(especially architects) not specifically interested in nano architecture to find out how exciting the field can be.
	Sarah Petzold	This was a great site if you want to see what is going on in the world of nano. Some of the presented materials weren't quite pure 'nano' or what we have talked about as what quantifies as 'nano', but instead just a mini of a present concept. The invisibility cloak is just cool, and it is amusing on the link for more information about it they mention Harry Potter. In class we mentioned how the world of fiction has impacted the scientific world. They started research and working on these cloaks before the Harry Potter series, but what work of fiction orginially inspired the idea? This website seemed to be an interesting research topic page not a true nano technology page.
	Heather Lautman	I think it is interesting that the site name is 'nanoarchitecture' and yet, there are many articles that are listed that are not on the nanoscale. (The first couple articles were about solar cells) When I explored some of the categories, like art, there were many interesting topics about new technology, however, it was many there just because it was small, not nessisarily 'nano.' The microscopic artwork is pretty impressive...
	Jim McKenna	The 'anti cloak' is an incredible innovation that really caught my interest. I can't begin to imagine the possibilities (negative and positive) that would result in perfecting this technology. Most of the articles were fastinating, but this one evoked a real sense of excitement and desire. This is perhaps one of the most dangerous technologies in the future.
	Dan Schaffer	"A Chinese research team has moved a step closer to realizing flat speakers that will be much cheaper than the existing ones, for they have found that sheets made of carbon nanotubes behave like a loudspeaker when zapped with a varying electric current." This page is full of really unique applications of "nanotechnology". I think that progress in the field of nanotechnology may not be so much a cure all, as just an eye-opener to new ways of doing old things. Since nanoscale molecules behave differently than their macroscopic selves, there may be two materials that can accomplish the exact same thing at a different size. This could lead to reduced cost or improved performance in everyday objects like speakers.
	Galen Frechette absent	So there are a lot of fancy nanotech things on this site. And after looking through a few pages and reading about some of the posts, I felt, despite all the hype about nanotech, that all the things on the site are just things like any other things that have come in the past. And like anything else are suspect to good and bad judgements. One may argue that a nanotechnology that can save human lives such as a cure for cancer or a nanotechnology with the goodness equivalent of a cure for cancer deserves more appreciation than some fancy nanotech "thing", and thats fine but once cancer is cured there will be another evil to defeat. And I do not mean to say just stop doing good things I just think that it is foolish to look to nanotech or anything for that matter for the ultimate fixes. I mean, if I got cancer than I would think that accepting the fact of what is and being at peace with it would be better than resisting it.
	Andrew Krushelnyski	Like the people above have said, this website is great for reading about the new technologies associated with nanotechonology. Everything was extremely interesting, especially the "anti-cloak" and I personally liked the superhydrophobic metal surface that completely repels water. My only suggestion would be a ranking or a "most-viewed" link for which articles that are most viewed can be viewed quickly by internet viewers.
	Ishan Gaur	The website reminds me of couple of websites which have a similar format and have interesting posts. Really like the idea of having a website which posts new ideas/innovations online. Ultimately it would form a large databank of ideas being shared between architects (I hardly found anything about architecture but I realize that they are usually better at making visual stuff). My personal favorites have to be the "Metal isn't sticking and the TurboBeads."
“Smarticles” http://www.architects.org/documents/publications/ab/julaug2008/Smarticles_Jul08.pdf	Joyce Chow	"But the most striking new products are the biomimetic nanomaterials wherein our knowledge is finally able to benefit from plants and other organisms that have developed a number of remarkable mechanisms for sustaining their existence over millennia." This reminds me of reading the "smartness" section in John Thackara's In the Bubble. Nature itself posseses many designs to meet our needs. It optimizes its functions with minimal energy. However, I think there are drawbacks in using nature's design as a guide because nature has something "magical" about it that man-made things will never be able to mimic.
	Mike Pennisi	"Nanotech funding is increasingly shifting toward achievable near-term applications and is wicking away from the kind of scientific research that has remained unsullied by industry and commerce during the past 10 years, as the field itself migrates away from the visionary roots set down 20 years ago in Drexler’s Engines of Creation." Does this shifting reflect the current tendency to forego toxicity testing in nanotechnology? Can a product-oriented approach to research coincide with one concerned with safety?
	Molly Danskin	“Often the last to arrive at the party and occasionally the last to leave, architecture has been slow to embrace and participate in the development of nanotech innovations.” What is it about the nature of architecture as a discipline that lends itself to this repeated ‘lateness’ in the acceptance and integration of technological advancements and change?
	Tracy Breslin	I think that the use of nanotechnology in architecture is one of the most beneficial applications of nanotechnology. Thackara used a examples of architecture that would allow buildings to regulate temperature more efficiently, smart materials that could sense natural occurrences of high winds or earthquakes and the building structure would stiffen or become more ductile accordingly to prevent damage. This would be beneficial to the environment and to the economy.
	Alex Lamparski	In a meeting Dr. Jackson states how she felt greatly disrespected when graffiti was placed on the buildings on campus. In Philadelphia the past few years have been spend placing murals on walls to prevent graffiti. On campus there is a graffiti wall in West hall. What is wrong with graffiti? Not all graffiti is desrespectful and damaging, some of it is actually very modern art. Just a small rant nanotechnology in architecture seems to be less accepting, is this because of the deep roots of architecture in tradition?
	Christine O'Rourke	“.....nanomaterials that provide enhanced thermal insulation or fire-resistance.”. This just made me think about how asbestos was once thought to be very useful until we found out it could cause cancer. Could this be why maybe nanotechnology shouldn't be used in architecture yet until there has been more research done?
	Andrew Cunningham	Is one reason the architects are slow to adopt nanotechnology, they want to wait until something is tried because peoples lives depend on the buildings they create? Or maybe they have some form of perspective scientists lack and normal citizens don't comprehend? Maybe architects are just the push nanotechnology needs to catapult it into the spotlight.
	Jason Bernardo	"One of Drexler’s central tenets was that nanotechnology would eventually enable us to create molecular machines that could replicate themselves, and might then be reprogrammed to carry out useful tasks by assembling products from the bottom-up, atom-by-atom, molecule-by-molecule, from a reservoir stock of elements." I've heard it proposed on Discovery that we could have nanobots assemble a carbon-nanotube structure on their own. How plausible is this and how would these nanomachines get their material?
	Rachel Ferebee	Anti-graffiti sounds like an interesting idea; however, I think it would be too expensive to be embraced. The people who could afford those coatings for their buildings most likely live in areas where graffiti is not a problem. So the people who would benefit most from this technology would not be able to afford it. Secondly, this technology could be detrimental. There are probably situations in which graffiti is a major means of expressing disagreement with a political or social situation. This would effectively remove one method of self expression for those people.