Monday, March 24th, 2008
An ethical dilemma with nanotech?
It turns out that a survey conducted by Dietram Scheufele, et. al. , shows that people who have "high religiosity" (i.e. are very religious) also have lower support for Federal Funding of Nanotechnology as compared to people with "low religiosity" (i.e. not so religious).
This result ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Nanotechnology has certainly expanded the realm of scientific possibility, but immortality? A growing number of nano-enthusiasts have prophesied the imminent end of death. I am not among them. These kind of wild-eyed claims have cursed the commercial prospects of promising technologies. Skeptics have marshaled false promises like these to ...
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