Home > News > Not enough talk about ethics and nanosciences
September 18th, 2007
Not enough talk about ethics and nanosciences
Abstract:
This is all very well but what are the main ethical dangers posed by nanoscience and nanotechnologies? The Commission does not want to go there at all and makes no serious mention. Web hunting, however, throws up some sinister applications including dramatic improvements in surveillance devices, new weaponry as the basis for "nano-terrorism" and still-to-be-understood environmental impacts of such things as "fullerenes" and "carbon nanotubes". And how acceptable will technologies such as implantable cells and sensors be to most of us?
When it eventually produces its Code of Conduct, I hope the Commission will help us to understand whether and how it will help to build a few defences against the perverse use of these new technologies.
Source:
sciencebusiness.net
Bookmark:
| Related News Press |
Ethics
Artificial Intelligence Centered Cancer Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Bioethics June 3rd, 2022
Iran to hold intl. school on application of nanomaterials in medicine September 20th, 2016
Synthetic biology needs robust safety mechanisms before real world application: Ethics and technology hold the key to the success of synthetic biology September 17th, 2015
March 2016; 6th Int'l Conference on Nanostructures in Iran July 29th, 2015
Interviews/Book Reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers/Posters
Simulating magnetization in a Heisenberg quantum spin chain April 5th, 2024
Discovery points path to flash-like memory for storing qubits: Rice find could hasten development of nonvolatile quantum memory April 5th, 2024
 |
||
 |
||
| The latest news from around the world, FREE | ||
 |
||
|
|
||
| Premium Products | ||
 |
||
|
Only the news you want to read!
Learn More |
||
 |
||
|
Full-service, expert consulting
Learn More |
||
|
|
||