The Pros And Cons Of Nanotechnology

Although the original program failed, it lead to the $75 One Tablet per Child program, so it may be considered a success. Sandler’s third concept of value sensitive design is means and byproducts, which delves into how many technologies have unintended byproducts, and how the ends don’t always justify the means. One tool that he explains is the Life Cycle Assessment, which tracks a technology through its life to observe the pros and cons it will have on society. Sandler then explores how nanotechnology may seem ideal at first glance, but leaves a lot of room for privacy issues. He thinks that by having social scientists work with engineers, many issues will be

The book “Prey”, is a novel written by Michael Crichton. This novel explains the wonders and potential hazards of nanotechnology. The plague had formed from a cloud of nanoparticles or microrobots, that had escaped from a laboratory. This started off as a so-called “harmless” cloud that is self-sustaining and self-reproducing, which means it can be extremely powerful. This cloud is intelligent and will evolve from things and become more and more deadly with every passing hour. It has become so powerful that every attempt after attempt has failed when trying to destroy this plague. This cloud has even now turned itself into large swarms that will get the prey it feeds off of to get bigger and less destructible. As this

Have you ever drove home from work, having a feeling you were forgetting to do something important? It’s 7 o’clock in the evening, you just realized that you were supposed to pay a bill before the bank closed. The money is there in the account but, how is the bank supposed to receive it? Well, luckily you pull out an iphone 6 to transfer the money into the account to pay the bill by using e-banking. Simple as that, you go home with a clear conscience knowing only that your bill is paid. Of course, people only care for the end results of a situation, but it’s sometimes good to consider what goes on in the transition. Crucial data such as financial record and pin number need to be under tight security. Only highly advanced technology that was

In his work, “Introduction: Nanotechnology, Society, and Ethics”, CalPoly Associate Professor of Philosophy Patrick Lin writes, “Let’s take a step back and consider any given technology we have created: gunpowder, the printing press, the camera, the automobile, nuclear power, the computer, Prozac, Viagra, the mobile phone, the Internet. Undoubtedly, these have brought us much good, but each has also changed society in important, fundamental ways and caused new problems, such as increased pollution, urban sprawl, cyber-crimes, privacy concerns, intellectual property concerns, drug dependencies, new cases of sexually-transmitted diseases, other unintended health problems, mutually-assured destruction and much more. The point here is not that we would have been better off without these inventions. Rather, we should come to terms that our creations can have unintended or unforeseen consequences” (Lin, n.d., p. 1). Lin’s point goes across the board for all technologies, there will be unforeseen consequences, some will be good and some will certainly be perceived as bad.

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BZRK, a novel by Michael Grant, is a science fiction story, about the misuse of nanotechnology. In the novel BZRK, nanotechnology is used for negative reasons, by the Armstrong Fancy Gift Corporation. This is an analogy of a world with nanotechnology in a modern day era. The technology developed the ability to make microscopic robots that can enter the human body through natural openings to change structures at a molecular level. They created it for medical purposes, for example, “to send his tiny minions in to kill cancer cells” (Grant, 72). Nanotechnology is being negatively used to take away freedom and chose for human beings. This good technology is used the wrong way to control the human mind and commit murder. Many of people with access

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Today, vaccination is regarded to as one of the greatest medical achievements. A lot of diseases such as smallpox, that were killers thousands of years ago are have become almost nonexistent all thanks to vaccines. Over the last a few years, there has been arguments and debates about how effective vaccines are. Vaccines contain weak viruses and when entering the body, the immune system identifies the foreign substances (antigens). Once the antigens are identified the immune system develops proteins called antibodies which are made of lymphocytes of B-cells; the antibodies circle in the body and kill antigens. Memory cells then remember the antigens so that when exposed to the same antigens again, they'll kill them. Still, 160 years after the invention of the needle and syringe, they are still being used to deliver vaccines. On the podcast "A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper", Mark Kendall argues that it's time to advance. He states that even though vaccines are successful technology and have increased our life span, the needle and syringe have some shortcomings. These shortcoming are cross-contaminations with needle, it could hold back next generation's vaccines in terms of immune response, and it could be responsible for the problem of cold chain.

The article, Nanotechnology in the Military by Will Soutter, discusses the many ways in which the government is investing in nanotechnology research for military use. The article points out that nanotechnology is something that many countries are starting to spend large amounts of money to fund research on ways to use nanotechnology for military advancement. The main focus for military advancement through nanotechnology would be better medical care and better clothing for protection and to communicate. In the article the Ministry of Defense predicts that nano-bots could soon be used to help with medical care. In addition, communication devices could be nano-enhanced by 2030. Researchers are looking for ways to use nanotechnology to improve

This interest was fostered through an undergraduate research project I conducted in the summer of 2016, funded by the Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium (OSGC). This NASA sponsored program allowed me to investigate the integration of varying degrees of personality traits outlined in behavioral biology into computer-simulated robots and learn how to work with a complex computer science project under Dr. Brent Eskridge, the Chair of the Computer Science / Network Engineering department at Southern Nazarene University. This project sparked my interest with nanoparticles because I saw that through the creation and simulation process present in the research, these same two processes could work with creating and testing theoretical compounds as alternatives for fuel or building materials. I am extremely interested in exploring how computer science, computational chemistry, and nanoparticles can be used

Amazingly the idea of nanobots was originally introduced in a 1966 movie called Fantastic Voyage. In the movie a nanobot submarine manned by people is injected into a sick scientist to repair him. Today modern nanobots hope to do the same thing without the submarine and people. Instead they are injecting tiny robotic machines in hopes of fighting bad cells and to diagnose diseases. I think that it is amazing that just 51 years later science fiction is becoming reality, science rocks!

Carbon is the fundamental element for everything on Earth. All life on Earth depends on carbon. Carbon has different forms of allotropes including diamond, graphene and charcoal. Carbon is found in position 12, with 4 colvalent electrons. All the allotropes have different properties nd uses due to how the carbon atoms are bonded. Carbon is able to single, double and triple bond with other elements to form complex molecules. Carbon can also use its four electrons to form diamond, where it is strong and stable, or three electrons to form graphite found in pencils, buckyball or all forms of nanocarbon including carbon nanotube.

Many people still want to know who will benefit most from nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has given us so much already and not just to the wealthy. Take a look around your house. Most of the things that you own were created or

Through history humans have always tried to innovate and create new technologies to move society onwards. In recent years breakthroughs in nanotechnology has slowly introduced ideas that could change everyone’s way of life. Think about a world where products are manufactured molecule by molecule and garbage can be broken down to dust. Humans whose wounds could be healed at the cellular level. All these improvements in society brought upon a single new category of technology. That is, nanotechnology. This paper will investigate the moral issues introduced by the advancement in nanotechnology. Furthermore, one will analyze the topic through all the theories seen in class with the objective of providing the utmost comprehensive analysis of the moral issues brought upon this soon to be technological breakthrough. There will be a focus on the utilitarian ethics, virtue ethics, duty ethics, risk analysis, and the type of government (technocratic or democratic) that should overlook this new technology. As a provisional claim, one can say that “Nanotechnology, although very beneficial for humans, is dwarfed by the immense issues that can be brought upon its application under the wrong hands”.