Nanotechnology in fact and fiction: (different talk!)
Nanotechnology in fact and fiction: a (different!) talk for sixth-formers delivered at the University of Oxford, March 2003. Download PDF or Word Doc.+ Powerpoint (ZIP file 1.35Mb)
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN FACT AND FICTION – Philip Ball
Lecture delivered at Oxford University, March 2003
There is a Powerpoint presentation to accompany this talk.
What is the scariest thing? I suspect that all writers of horror and thrillers will agree on this: the thing that scares us most is the thing we cannot see. It is, let’s be frank, a grim time to be reminded of the terrors of the invisible foe, but there is nothing new in that. Some historians argue that the Black Death in the 14th century drove all of Europe to a state of collective madness, creating an obsession with death and with the invisible demons that were believed to torment humankind. The plague was blamed on poisonous airs, pestilential vapours, and on the agency of devils and witches.
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