Nanotechnology raises big hopes — and big fears (CBC)

[Drew Wilson]

It's the speck of dirt on the foot of a flea, and within it may be locked the utopian dreams of a great beginning or the repressed fears of apocalyptic end times.

Nanotechnology — the super science of the modern age — is rocketing under the radar to transform how we live, work and play. It manipulates matter so small the naked eye can't see it and the mind's eye can't comprehend. It is buffing, burnishing and delivering an eye-popping, gee-whiz oomph to more than 800 products around the world, with more rolling off the production line each week.

And the consumer wave is only the beginning.

Around the world, researchers clad in snow-white, clean-room "bunny-suits" are breaking ground in nanomedicine, figuring out how to use the extremely small particles to heal wounds faster, deliver drugs with greater precision and create sci-fi sensors for eyeball ailments with atomic-level accuracy.

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[Mels_Smileys45]

Nanomedicine can be scary too. I saw a show once about what could happen if governments master this tech and start using it to make super soldiers and such, which you know they will do right away. We would be FUCKED!

[Excrement_Cranium]

Nanotech?

Dragonwipeout?


J/K

[SorrowsWinter]

Sure beats the nanopenis, a condition widespread in the p2p community. I keed i keed

[mountain_rage]

Nano tech does not scare me half as much as what companies are doing with bio and genetic engineering. Not sure about the rest of you, but for some reason I don't trust a big corporation with being ethical with my food.