Friday, October 28, 2005

Dangers of nanotechnology

The Nanoethics Group officially launched as a non-partisan think tank to study the societal, ethical and policy <A HREF="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/10/prweb291919.htm">implications of nanotechnology</A>--or the manipulation of molecule-sized materials to create new products. Driven by public anxiety and a lack of information in this area, the research group will tackle a broad range of unanswered and troubling questions about the new science, from terrorism to health concerns and more. Scientists predict that the new science will profoundly affect modern life, much as the Industrial Revolution has. Nanotechnology is an entirely new way to think about manufacturing--such as building things from the ground up, one atom at a time--and is expected to give us such products as digital monitors that are as flexible as plastic wrap, and in the distant future, even steak without the cow.

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