Interviewees

Amanda McDonald Crowley
Australian Network for Art & Technology
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Andres Burbano
Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Columbia
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Anne Nigten
Manager, V2 Lab, Netherlands
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C. Kim
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Chi-Ming Ho
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Chris Salter
Interaction Architect/Co-Director, Sponge, Germany/USA
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David Awschalom
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Diana Domingues
Professor & Coordinator of Graduate Researchers, Semiotics and Communication Graduate Program, University of Caxias Do Sul, Brazil
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Eli Yablonovitch
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Fraser Stoddart
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Heather Maynard
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Hermann Gaub
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Jacquelyn Ford Morie
Associate Director for Creative Development, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA
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James Gimzewski
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John Winet
New Media Producer & Researcher
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Lisa Naugle
Assistant Professor, Dance, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Mark Beam
CEO, Creative Disturbance, USA
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Michael Century
Professor, Chair of Arts Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
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Ming Wu
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Nina Czgledy
 Artist, Critical Media, Canada
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Owen Witte
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Prof. Jiang
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Prof. Liao
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Roy Doumani
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Russ Caflisch
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Sam Gambhir
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Sarah Tolbert
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Sha Xin Wei
Assitant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Shimon Weiss
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Slade Gardner
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Victoria Vesna
Media Artist, Chair of Design|Media Arts, UCLA
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C. Kim

Dreams, I already told you. Nightmare is the kind we had ten years ago in the field of MEMS at its infancy. Hype grew fast, limited only by the imagination of people that included many non-experts, who were drawn in by the hype itself. Newspaper and magazine writers constantly wrote about, although understandably, micro-robots that would navigate inside human body for treatment. The devices researchers were actually developing did not make headlines. For those who waited for these micro-robots, our field of MEMS may be a disappointment by now. But for those who started the field of MEMS, we feel overly successful today. A few even became multi-millionaires. Today, I see the same with nano, only in a greater range. Some people expect too much out of nano. There seems to be too much hype. Promises from the nano-scientists are fine, but there are people who come into nano only for the glory and quick personal gain rather than science and engineering. These people tend to feed the hype but are not likely to produce. In the end, however, the whole community will get either praise or blame together. If the expectations are too high and if people don’t get what they hoped for at the end of the road, they will be disappointed. People expect great results too soon. My concern for nano is that, although it will succeed, right now people outside expect too much; some of their expectations are impractically high.