Nanotech Risks

Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, talks to Jorge Ribas about the technology's risks.

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[SuperTex1966]

Nano technology in and of itself is no more dangerous than harnessing fire was thousands of years ago. It's not the tech that's the issue. It's that lack of understanding and control, as well as those that would intentionaly use it to do harm.

Humans have always been the problem.

Not that I advicate getting rid of us.

[TheRedspider2a]

man if we get nano technology

its gunna make people be able tolive forever even though you shoot them in the head and then they're guna come back later

and you have to fight em in a hangar with lots of robots coming in then your girlfriend is guna die and then some nerd named otacon is guna be like nooooo

and nano machines are also guna make our guns make it to not be usable and your clone will be evil and you have to fight him on a sub base peak and its guna suck

[wizzzer1337]

let the grey goo destroy us all

[MikeBurke1974]

Wow a whopping 2 min 19 sec on the possible dangers of Nanotechnology! For anyone who would like to delve deeper into that subject I would suggest reading Drexler's "Engines of Creation". Since human nature does not change we are in danger of annihilating ourselves as we reach the limits of technology.

Guess what people! They have yet to produce a mainstream science fiction film that shows what the future will really look like. And guess what, it ain't Star Trek.

Most minds are not ready.

[Deathrune456]

@SuperTex1966

Nanotechnology is several magnitudes more dangerous than fire. Any material on the planet that the nanomachines consume could end up as a victim of their massive reproduction potential. If any of those materials they use to reproduce lie within living organisms, you'd see EXACTLY how dangeous they would be.

[sweetiepienumber1]

@jaieet Read or listen audio book "Spontaneous Evolution" . Evolution cannot be stopped, it's impossible, science will move forward & with the advent of the net we r all connected & we r larger & more powerful than some misguided corporation's which only have as much power as we give them. God? We are God. Everything in the Universe is connected on a quantum scale and combined we are God. The universe is evolving & no corporation can stop it. Use inet 4 collective power, start here and now.