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Society Impact&
Ethical Issues
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OUTLINE
Nanotechnology and Social Impact
Nano Ethics
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SOCIAL IMPACT
What will life be like in the heyday ofnanotechnology?
How will its development actually impact
people's day-to-day lives?What do they ultimately mean to me in my
life?
When will nanotechnology actually enter ourlives and become not the next big thing, butthe current one?
The answer is "NOW"
The original ideas behind nanotechnologygo back some 20 years
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INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
This technique was first developed by Mobil andby some estimates saves approximately 400million barrels of oil per year (around $12 billion)in the United States alone.
Energy PolicyPetroleum and Oil
Refining
Zeolites
Gasoline
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COATINGS AND LAMINATES
So what forms of nanotechnology are we
most likely to see and touch?
Perhaps first on the list of consumer
nanogoods are smart materials such as
coatings and laminates.
Audi A4 Series
Cars
Reduce
Skin Cancer
The Institute for New Materials in
Germany is manufacturing windows
that contain a nanolayer of material
that changes from clear to dark bluewhen a switch is thrown. This
approach could be used as an
alternative to window shades orwindow tinting
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NANOGATE TECHNOLOGY
German and Japanese manufacturers such as NanogateTechnologies have started selling bathroom andkitchen tile that cannot get dirty since it is impossiblefor dirt and grit particles to cling to the coating
These self-cleaning tiles can also be impregnated withbiocidal (antimicrobial) nanoparticles.
This prevents growth of rots and fungi that infestbathrooms and enhances overall sanitation.
These tiles may put an end to the ever-unpleasant taskof bathroom cleaning, a prospect many might considersufficient cause to support all of nanotechnology
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COMPUTER ENTHUSIASTS
Nanotechnology offers so much to the world
of computing.
Even for those who don't particularly want a
quantum computer on their desktops, a
variety of very exciting products will soon be
available.
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COMPUTER DISPLAY
CRT LCD
LED
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Nano-Tex
Advances in molecular-scale composite materials haveallowed companies like Nano-Tex to create next-generation cloth and clothing.
Materials almost totally resistant to stains
Materials that combine the comfort of cotton ornatural fibers with the strength and durability ofsynthetics like nylon are already hitting the market inproducts from Eddie Bauer, Lee Jeans, and Nano-Texparent, Burlington Industries.
These fabrics could be of great use in hospitals, wherepathogens are common and patients are currently atsignificant risk from each other's infections.
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SPORTS EQUIPMENT
Carbon fiber and graphite composites made theirdebuts in lightweight bikes and America's Cup
sailboats.
Fiberglass and plastics have been used for better
football and hockey pads.
Wilson's Double Core tennis balls use a
nanocomposite clay to keep balls bouncing longer
Babolat has introduced super-strong nanotubes intoits tennis racket line for improved torsion and flex
resistance.
Nanotubes are sure to see wider adoption in sports
equipment as their prices come down
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MEDICINE
Medicine has not traditionally been considered a consumermarket, nanotechnology may be changing that.
Home pregnancy tests have already seen improvements inease of application, speed of results, and overall accuracysince they have started employing nanoparticles, and otherhome tests are becoming feasible.
Some scientists hope to see tests for everything fromanthrax to AIDS made simple enough for self-applicationthrough the use of nanotechnology, and goods like bracesand prosthetics are already targets of early nanotechnologyventures.
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All in all, while much of the promise
of nanotechnology remains in the
future, it is already slipping into ourlives through our houses, our
computers, our games, and even our
bodies. The age of nanotechnology is
truly upon us.
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Utopian dreams
1. Pollution-free environment
2. Ideal society3. Disease-free life
4. Long and healthy life
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Apocalyptic nightmares1. War of the world
2. Epidermic of nanobots into the
food chain and ecosystems3. Economic break-down
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Nano Ethics
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Nano Ethics
Research ethics and the use of implantingnano-devices in humans: i.e. implantingartificial devices.
Liver and Eye Implantation
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Cont.
Increase of Uneven Military Power
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Increasing of economical gap betweendeveloped and developing countries
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Increasing possibilities of misused personalinformation: i.e. revealing a medicalinformation (in a DNA chip) to an insurancecompanies
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Increasing Possibilities of Privacy Violation
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Under current laws in many countries,developers and research companies canpatent drugs as well as genetic patterns and
synthesis techniques. Researchers areafforded this patent protection for the samereasons that other firms in other industriesare awarded patentsto encourage them to
innovate and to allow them to recover thecosts of research, development, and testing oftheir products.
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More sinister applications from the darker
pages of science fiction could conceivably be
possible. For example, some organizations
might seek to create viruses that only targetpeople with specific genetic characteristics or
even to customize a virus for a specific person.
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There is already much consternation about
the ethics of human and animal cloning. Both
it and the debate over stem cells, which
essentially asks whether pre-embryonic lifecan be sacrificed in order to create treatments
that can prolong and improve the lives of
people suffering from Alzheimer's,Parkinson's, juvenile diabetes, or other
degenerative diseases
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May help unlock true artificial intelligence
If this occurs, how should artificial intelligence betreated?
What rights and privileges should it have?What if it should become self-replicating?
If interfaces between humans and computersimprove to the point where they are hard todifferentiate, what will that mean for humancivilization?
Even if nanocomputation fails to producemachines that think, one of its stated goals
is to break codes. If this reaches fruition, all
common forms of digital cryptographyfrom the sort that protects e-commerce to
the kind that protects nuclear secrets could
be compromised. The implications for
national security and for personal privacy
cannot be overstressed.
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The whole ethical debate overnanotechnology is one of the most importantreasons for the public to know what nano is
and what it could mean.Nanotechnology is already, by its very nature,
a multidisciplinary science. Perhaps we don'tneed the involvement only of scientists andengineers, but of thinkers, ethicists, lawyers,theologians, and politicians as well.
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