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Nano-Risks: A Big Need for a Little Testing (Scientific American)
A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy warned in his essay “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” self-assembling nanobots could potentially spread out of our control (Mis-)programmed to replicate ad infinitum, these subsentient bots would spread across the... »
American Chemical Society Touts Nanobots as Nanotechnology’s Big Impact (IEEE Spectrum)
Folks at the Foresight Institute can take heart that at least the American Chemical Society (ACS) is promoting the idea that nanobots and nanoassemblers are how nanotechnology will have its big impact. (read the story…) Related items Step forward for nanotechnology: Controlled movement of molecules (EurekAlert!) Advance in ‘nano-agriculture’: Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth (EurekAlert!) ‘NanoPen’... »
