Can nanotech poison us?
Bob Morris @ Apr 2nd 2008 22:12 - Category: Unfiled Tags: nanosilver, nanotech
Maybe. Nanosilver is already being used commercially, and it “can damage both human cells and wild ecosystems.” Are there other such substances? No one really knows for sure.
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Save Money on 03 Apr 2008 at 10:18 am #
Yeah it’s kind of scary that as we get into newer and unfamiliar territory in science we start to find more and more risks that we don’t know about. Hopeful these can be worked out before there introduced to the public.
DJ on 03 Apr 2008 at 2:11 pm #
Unfortunately both risk assessment and morality typically lag behind technology by a significant margin. Here’s a question in a similar but unrelated field: would a cloned human have rights? So far, no one knows.