Nanotechnology at a human scale

What will nanotechnology be like at the human scale? How will we experience it? How will we work with it and how will we think about it? These are different questions to those asked by today’s scientists and policy makers who tend to view nanotechnology in terms of risks and benefits.

The following images explore the properties of nanotechnology as we might experience it in daily life as opposed to its proprties at the tip of an atomic-resolution microscope.