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Global Design for Geoethical Nanotechnology

By Natasha Vita-More

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Moving Beyond Dogmas
Most of my performance art and films have been made from the environment - inside volcanos, out at sea for three months, attaching myself to rock formations - doing all sorts of interesting things with the environment, with the concept of perpetual change and moving away from the constraints that tie us to the dogmas of the world. Figure 3 illustrates the limitlessness inherent in global design.

Vita-more Figure 3
Figure 3

What are the dogmas of the world? They tend to be in these areas of technology, politics, societal beliefs, and economics. We need to move away from these dogmas when considering different effects of nanotechnology, especially molecular engineering in nanotechnology.

What if we had a new political system that wasn't so party-based, that was more trans-political? Not necessarily beyond politics, but moving in transition, where we develop better ways to assess how we view issues and how those issues affect us. One idea for this model would be to create a Blogocracy. A Blogocracy would be a series of nomothetic and diplomacy-based referendums for voting on issues where pervasive computing power would enable instant feedback and communication between people in diverse cultures going through diverse situations in their own personal lives.

This type of political system would remove the “I’m right, you’re wrong” camps. “My issue is better than your issue.” “I know the answer, you don't." Instead, a Blogocracy would ask what do people really think? How can they vote on an issue rapidly? Now we are talking about structures with molecular logic gates. When you get into that level of molecular nanotechnology, you are looking at a whole other format for computing power. The point there is that it would be rapid, it would be efficient, it would be time-conscious and it would exist more on its own.

In a Blogocracy, voting would be based specifically on each person’s beliefs. I believe that much of the angst in society today is a result of people not getting their thought across or because their idea is not voted on or they feel powerless to direct where their tax money goes. In a Blogocracy, the onus is on the individual to determine for him or herself what he wants, such as where his taxes go. Do you want it to go to feed the children in Africa or would you rather it be directed towards water desalination?

Critical Thinking
This type of system would highlight critical thinking. A Blogocracy would be networked around the world. If you squint your eyes, you can imagine how these networks might work. Envision the instantaneous voting and discussions. However, if people do not have the ability for critical thinking, this system will not work. And further, as far as design goes of that molecular structure, what about renaissance teams of thinking?

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