HorizonZero Issue 14: DREAM: speculating the nanotech home of the future

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Issue 14: DREAM: speculating the nanotech home of the future www.horizonzero.ca

Nanotechnology research intervenes at the scale of atoms and molecules, while digital media operates in the realm of the virtual. DREAM explores one place where these revolutions will one day converge: the architecture of the home. What if your dwelling could change shape, or be carried in your pocket? What if your house remembered your dreams? Issue 14 speculates about near and distant futures in which silicon combines with carbon, science meets fiction, and dreams grapple with nightmares. Wander through futuristic nanotech "dream homes". Read fact and fiction writings on nanotechnology, ethical struggles, the debunking of old myths, and the critical search for new ones. Above all, contemplate worlds where all is transparent as we consider a science both amazing and disturbing.

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NANO HOME OF THE FUTURE
A telepathic kitchen.
A living room that helps you relive the past.
A personal nomadic home.
A shelter embedded beneath the skin.
A house that gains legal ownership of its occupant's DNA.
A nanoscale journey through the home of today…

All of these ideas are brought to life through the Nano Home of the Future project. This interactive gallery features the work of six unique teams of scientists + artists + designers who have each set out to envision their dream home of the future in words, pictures, animation, and sound. The result: six remarkable, and remarkably different, blueprints for possible domestic worlds.

HORIZONTAL ATOMIC
Montreal audiovisual artists Skoltz_Kolgen take us on a journey beyond the horizons of visible perception and into the flooded basement of the universe. It's time to get Nanowet.

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CUTTING NANOTECH DOWN TO SIZE
Science and Tech writer Tom Keenan takes a look at the buzz about nanotech and says "don't believe all the hype, it's not quite what you think".

THE HOUSE OF THE FUTURE
Architect Marie-Paule MacDonald presents a special history of the idea of the dream home of the future.

BLUEPRINTS FOR TOMMOROW
Three experts offer opinions on the coming nano architectures. Featuring Candice Hopkins on nomadic homes, Gregor Wolbring on design ethics and identity, and Joanna Berzowska on memory-enhanced living.

THE PUBLIC, THE PRIVATE, AND THE INVISIBLE
Michele White considers the political implications of combining nanotechnologies and the home, where the invisibility of the tiny just might encourage the expression of alternate dreams and realities.

CONQUERING THE INFINITELY SMALL
Science journalist Phillipe Mercure introduces us to the manifold achievements and promises of the nanotech revolution.

THE NANOMEME SYNDROME (abridged version)
Nanoscientist Jim Gimzewski and media artist Victoria Vesna debunk mechanistic visions of nanorobotics, and explain how the blurring of fact and science fiction is contributing to the construction of a new science. "Gathering the Echoes"
Science fiction writer Jean-Louis Trudel gifts us with the story of a home which once seemed so alive, but is now haunted by the dead.

NANO LINKS
For the infinitely curious, be sure to check out the Nano links resource page, where you'll find our editors top list of links to nanotechnology, nano art, and the concept of the "dream home of the future".

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