yap, but that is not the direction i wanna go. i also don't want extropian phantasies. i wanna know, when is something that small that it looses its effect. it can't neither be understood nor used by human kind ... by writing these my neurons spin to the religious corner.. ¡joder!

Hm. Depends on which category of machines you mean. Consumer electronics? Medical devices? Computers? Microfabs?

i take any of these if i find an answer. i was looking at them, but couldn't get hold of social studies, just a lot of futuristic fantasies.

(Sometimes I think that Luhmann is all about de-materialism.)

don't tell me. i was standing in front of him at the shelf and thought, no i don't won't you. please not.

Luhmann can be anything, that's why he's so big. Besides Moore's "Law" nothing comes to my mind right now. And that's not really a scientific text. Another thought is that people sometimes tend to conceal technology (or non-technology like the chess-playing Turk) and making it smaller and smaller is certainly a way of concealing things. Making something very intricate is also a way of making something more precious.

(And perhaps you'll find some ideas in text about the early microbe hunters, perhaps in Bruno Latours The Pasteurization of France)

thanks , i will take a look. maybe i understand monsieur this time ...

aramis, or the love of technology, making things public, invisible city, .... what actually did i know about latour, strange. i remember, i was just holding the microphone and didn't speak french ... didn't follow him. hey, thanks for the pointer!