What do you think about nanotechnology?
41% (422 votes)
It will revolutionize the world we live in for the better
17% (176 votes)
It will cause massive problems we can't forsee
26% (267 votes)
I've never heard of nanotechnology
16% (164 votes)
I've heard of it but don't really know what it means
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this will most likely run into problems, besides wasting money that could be put to better use. health care needs money for causes as it is already, and we should focus on those first.
On some things it could actually improve health and longevity, while on the other hand if used by the wrong people it could be disasterous
Nanotechnology will revolutionize many different scientific fields, but it may have repercustions we cannot forsee. We may not be able to fully understand those repurcustions until sometime in the future, but I do not think it will hurt to try nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology is, in my opinion, the key to getting us to the far reaches of the universe. I forsee space exploration as the key to giving humans a more rational vision of our existence. This may enable us to look past our differences and disputes over land and beliefs. When the universe can be traversed, we may redirect our negative energy towards a positive endeavor.
Nanotechnology may provide the key to fuels, subatomic manipulations, and other current roadblocks in travel. It may save our very race. In the least, it may give some the option to leave the planet before the next evolutionary bottleneck.
Jesse
I think nanotechnology will change things for the better. There are no currently known major drawbacks, and I think none will ever appear.
although nanotech. is more costy at this point in time, there will reach a point where the curve will change and nanotech. w/ill be the cost efficient way to go. how far into the future this will be: Who knows? but it will happen. look at the industrial revolution, wood was cheap. everyone uses wood. then here comes coal. coal is not cheap. money is investedintothe research and uses of the substance and bammo. everyone uses coal.
sure there will be problems but thats life.
I Think u are right. U know our country is what like somthin trillion dollars in debt. And if we have the money. We shoulld use it for useful stuff like food for starving peoples and stuff like that
The technology needs ethics it does not matter how big or small. Technology has always had its critics when it is new, and they are full of reasons why it wont work. They rarely admit they were wrong afterward. If you think it cant be done: stand back, get out of the way and watch minneota schools and industry lead the way into the future.
i dont enough about nanotechnology but it seems good for health. people may be spending to much money on it though.
I am most interested in how it may enhance health care products. I would first like to see money go to assuring more people receive some basic care before investing in something that is likely to be accessed only by the wealthy for many years to come.
Its true that we need to focus on health care first, but nanotechnology may, at the moment may seem costly, but in the long run it could help millions of people from getting cancer or help detect cancer earlier and even possible destroy cancer cells in the body. I believe this downtrodden view of things is not the way to see the world. Buck up, its going to get better.
I do not agree i think that more funding on nanotechnolgy could lead to cures.
this is something that shows potential advantages. explored with caution may prove more valuable than we ever knew.
Hard to say, but it's a long way off either way.
Actually there are many nanotechnology products that you can buy today.
sure it can
We could use the money spent on this research for more important studies, like a cure for cancer, or social security problems, not on something that isnt even a for sure thing that is not a major problem in peoples lives at the moment.
Interesting that you bring up a cure for cancer. One of our featured "Scientists on the Spot," Ghidewon Arefe, is a mechanical engineer who's trying to figure out how to use nanotechnology, in the form of quantum dots, to detect breast cancer much earlier and more reliably than any method we have now.
Nanotechnology has a ton of interesting and practical applications that go WAY beyond Dockers stain-repellent pants.
Science Buzz is going to feature a mini-exhibit on nanotechnology starting next week. Check back then!
This is always a challenge in science. What you fund today may not seem important in comparison to the many important problems we currently face. But today's esoteric research may be tomorrow's world energy solution. Whatever gets funded, it is important for the public to be involved in this dialog. To get informed you might want to look at where the US government is putting its dollars in nanotech programs (numbers are in millions of dollars):
In addition, nanotechnological devices can destroy tumors.
more important things to worry about..
It's pretty much going to be sweet.
ovisouly i will cause massive poblems
its to darn small
i voted that way because i have never heard of nanotechnology
I know very little about nanotechnology. So it is hard forsee its effects on our world. Could you supply some information on it and recent developements in this field.g
technology we can't see. scary! why would that be cool? sneaky sneaky.
It should help the world, like most sciences have and will continue to as long as the technology is used for the betterment of life on this planet.
Like all technologies, the results will be good and bad. The car gave us mobility and also pollution. Them's the breaks, folks.
i am a pessimist
I don't know what that word means, sorry to have to say that though, and that's all I have to say for now so bye!!!!!!!!!
Ok, that one person is right about the cars and polution. The cars give transportation and at the same time they polute (don't know how to spell that sorry if it's wrong), and I don't know what else to say so I gotta go!!!!!!!! ttyl I guess jso bye!!! (haha is sayd bye twice)
i have never heard of nanotechnology and don't get it!!!!!
I think that if terrorists got ahold of nanotechnology that they could sneak unseen into important places that they wish to bomb and they would hack into the security systems and bomb the place... In other words nanotechnology is a terrible thing and we should not be using it!
if that's true then we just need to make a better security system that we can detect usch with
it will rule
i put this comment b/c i've never heard of it before.
While I think that nanotechnology can be very beneficial, it will, like all technology, be open to abuse. And the more powerful the technology, the greater the potential to both help and harm. Biological plagues may be nothing compared to a nano-disease, and there may not be easy ways to detect them.
it is something id like to learn more about before I decide
I think nanotech is facinating, and would be very interested to see it advanced. There are many different uses for it, and will change people's lives for the better.
nano tech is flippin amazing and should be diffenantly advanced because it saves peoples lives and makes them better
the us may be the wealthiest country but not 1 billion dollars given away wealthy. nanotechnoligy will never go anywhere.its stupid and pointless. we should get this money and put it toward a cancer cure. that is what is causing so many civilians their lives...
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small will be the next BIG thing!
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war is backwards! use nanotech for peace and personal freedoms instead of fear-based initiatives like surveillance and war.
i have heard of it but dont really know what it means im only in 8th grade
love dum 8th grader
I think nanotecnology is a good way to bring more tecnology to our future.
your ideas are great and everything but you need to know how it's going to react. my opinion is the nanotechnology needs to have a few test and a price cut.
who says it will cause massive problems? technology is great as long as we don't use it to start a nucliere war
i think nanotechnology is a waste of time and money
I think that Nanotech. is a great new way to learn about the human body and other reasurching things. nanotech will help us understand more, yes maybe it might be bad but think in the plus side...all those lives that it might save! it could cure cancer, its small enought to get into the blood stream and it coulf ditect the cancer cells and obliverate them! NANATECH. ROCKS!
i think nano technology will make our live easier and more fun. I hope we can have cell phones the in the shape of our tooth.
It willl probably work very well at first but then problems might happen
it will probably work in the begining but then problems might arise
My grandma died of breast cancer, so I think nano technology would help our lives and the difference between life and deth. In my opinion, nano technology will also make our lives fun.
I think that nanontechnology is a very importand part of our society.
We should be focusing more on lasers. What problems are there that laser beams can't solve? None. Terrorism, check. Cancer, check. Homework, check. Alabama, check.
Hmm, well while I share your enthusiasm for lasers, I don't think we should be thinking about taking out Alabama with them. But seriously there are some efforts to incorporate nanotechnology research with laser technology.
This super fast laser might be able to etch circuits at around 20 nanometers.
This story talks about a laser that could help us detect individual viruses on the nanoscale. Scientists have figured out a way to see tiny variations in a laser as it bounces off of DNA or a virus. This could be used to test for all kinds of conditions in the body.
So yeah...nanotechnology and lasers. We're on that.
bryan,can you tell me more info on nanotech,plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?im doing a science fair project on it and cant find good but short info!
I think it will be helpful, so long as we dont abuse it.
I've heard of it but im not sure what it means.
check out the nano courses at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount
i think nanos are really,relly cool
i would use it to make little cameras to shoot really good movies from hard-to-get-to spots.
it would cause alot of unforseen problems but it could also do alot of good. it depends on whos using it.
Advances in science have always been associated with progress and as nanotechnology evolves, it will lead to further progress in dealing with medical problems (illness & disease, etc). It is when we stop progressing that harm is witnessed in our society.
- The Canadian
I think this will save the world.
there are two sides to everything, what good comes from nanotechnology will also come bad, it just depends on the inventor,
how do you manipulate individual atoms to be able to build nano technology? my fingers are too large to manipulate them.
Nanotechnology FTW! If every other country is researching it, why not us? It might be harmful, but me need to get the technology before our enemies do.
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Hi, I don't understand this article. Please tell me more.
I believe nanotechnology will change our future. It definetely makes a difference now and I hope that I can learn more. Nanotechnology is different for everyone. To some people it means nothing. To others it could depend on their life. It is dangerous, special and obviously a gateway to the future.
oh, this is ridiculous, nanotechnology will only be a problem if people breath nanoparticles in
I think that nanotechnology is the future of human vehicles. It will eventually give us telepathy, immortality and telekenetic-like abilities. ...well, maybe our children's children ... . Oh! And it will make it so that food doesn't spoil. I like my shakes!!!
can we be killed buy nanos?
"Nanos" are not a thing. Using nanotechnology is not equal to dangerous. But there is allot of science fiction and even futuristic science thought about nano scale devices taking over all of nature. Most of these theories have been shown to be highly unlikely. What is more likely, is the prospect of nanotechnology causing small scale health problems for those who work in the labs and factories producing these materials. The communities around these production facilities may also be affected by unsafe leakage of nanoscale pollutants into the environment.
Nano tech seems weird!!!!!!!! Does anything I use have it?
from what i know about nanotecnology i thhink it's a revolutionary discovry than will change our future completly
great info!!!!
I think nanotech could have huge potential for humans. We could use molecular-sized carbon structures to clear veins of cholesterol, or make intelligent particles that actively hunt and destroy cancer cells. Nanotechnology could also revolutionize the way we perform medical procedures by minimizing collateral damage to delicate tissues.
Nanotechnology can be useful for eliminating pollution by somehow releasing antipollutant chemicals into a cloud of HNO2 or a blob of oil.
Nanotech is probably the greatest acheivement of modern technology, but it must be used wisely, and must not fall into the wrong hands, for terrorists could use it like no other weapon on Earth
YEs i agree with the second half if terriosts get a hold of it somthing bad will happen
OH WHAT THE HECK?????????????? Whats the big deal on nanotechnology? heck i cant even spell it rite. Maybe their are better causes like maybe, possibly, A CURE FOR CANCER OR OTHER LIFE THREATENING DEASIESES
Who knows this technology could be very useful.
EXACTLY FINALY SOMEONE HAS A BRAIN
Nanothecnology is a waste of money. what about other problems we are facing?
you can look at nanotech in either the optimistic or the pessimistic way. it will definately revolutionalize the world, but on the other hand we will run into many problems. things that are so small to see? howwill we work with them? but then wea ll want computers, ipod, tvs, and other advanced pieces of technology which are more easier for us to handle.
I think this is acctually really interesting and were spending our money wisely on it!
I am not as optimistic as some due to my experiences in the past. I have personally seen the big pharmaceutical companies suck up and hide cures for cancer. For the example I know of personally see the book "Patient Number One"
How can you be sure that this fate does not await your research?
Thank you,
John
I wonder if nanotechnology could be used to treat/prevent degenerative diseases....
I don't know what that even is so like I guess it would help the world, um............ so like or it could just cause tons of problems, but don't u think that smart people should know if it causes problems or not?
i feel as though it could cause criminals to get greedy, although it is a big step in technology, i would have to say it's dangerous for mankind.
Nanotech will be a giant sucess. Already scientists have created simple cars. These will be used to remove dangerous matierials from public places, even without us knowing.
Here is that nanocar you are referring to.
what are scientists doing with nano technology to create filters for viruses and bacterium in the human body
I think this is a big waste of money. It probally wont work anyway. Whats the point of it. Its never going to work. And even if it does it will take to long to get working anyway so its a waste of time.
I think it will revolutionize the world for the better
Hey whats up yall nano tech is bomb I have been doing it for about 5 years in college now and i must say you can do some cool and crazy stuff. bye
nano tech is sweet yES
nanotech is cool and even if it takes $ we should study and use it
by the way,that was me,bree talking
how do we raely know what it can do for us if we dont know what it is and what it can do
nanotechnology was done as a quest in robotics and i think it can help humanity.
i think nanotechnology is cool and it can help develop our economy.i wonder if others have bothered to study about it
hello fellow TAFFY'S. My views on nanotechnology are not the most educated as i do not know much on the topic. though as i have read about this new technology it seems to me that the good majorly outweigh's the bad and i believe that nanotechnology should go full steam ahead. the new age of TAFFY'S and NANOTECHNOLOGY is at hand.
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