Lessons from the Land of Atoms and Molecules

Lessons from the Land of Atoms and Molecules

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When the humanities and social sciences examine nanotechnology, what does this reveal about those disciplines? Here, I cover six topics.First, we can ask whether our work is derived from earlier work on other scientific topics like genetically modified organisms or the ELSI program of the Human Genome Project.Secondly, how do we judge rubbermaid 8 gallon trash can the extravagant promises that were attached to nanotech? Third, what do we conclude about the origins of nanotech? After that, the problem mel axolotl of defining nanotechnology.Then the question whether there could have been, or should have been, a consensus on ethics in nanotech.

And finally, a responsibility to communicate our findings and insights to the scientific and engineering communities that make nanotech happen.