Many inventions and discoveries spread worldwide. Mostly were being adopted by millions of people around the globe. What a magnificent job for those inventors and scientist who created it. Today a wide spread issues about the rapidly growing of a new technology which has infinite application in almost everything we do is said to be cause by Nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology was popularized by K. Eric Drexler and as its basic definition it is the engineering of functional system at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced. It refers to the projected ability to construct item from the bottom up, using techniques and tools being developed today to make complete high performance products.(http://www.crnano.com/) Nanotech indeed has a big impact on all industries in all areas of society. Because it is said to offer “better built, longer lasting, cleaner, safer, & smart products for home, for communication, for medicine, for transportation, for agriculture, for industry in general”. It improves manufacturing processes that make our life a lot easier. New technologies have great improvements to our industry but we can’t hide the fact that it always has its risk or bad implication. Let’s take a look during 19th century were Revolutionary changes occur such as industrial revolution where heavy metals introduced, discoveries of oil, gasoline, and electricity, and so with the invention of machines for agriculture, transportation, and communication. It was indeed a great help for us because up to now we are using it in our daily activity. I can say it has bad implication because we people tend to rely on these technologies. Pollution from factories and vehicles, diseases cause by toxins, simple diseases that can be cured by herbal medicines before become completed or harmful diseases now a days. Though technology has great help for discovering new medication but still problem occurs, our job or things we do were affected when power interruption occur, computer helps as earn more knowledge but some were being addicted to computer games etc, and many other more. Throughout my research about the growth of nanotech I learned that this invention will led us to development of “life saving robots, networked computers for everyone, trillion & dollars of abundance, rapid invention of wondrous products”. But it is also the means of “untraceable weapon of mass destruction, surveillance cameras so government can watch our every move which will violate our right to privacy, a vicious scramble to own everything, and lastly weapons fast development to destabilize any arms race”. Those mention above could led us to face the risk such as economic disruption , environmental damage, war, terrorism, no privacy, world dictatorship, block markets and smuggling. Aside from the wonderful things it could serve us in the future it also has its serious economic, social, environmental, and military implications. I believe that we should be aware that this will probably be causing severe disruption to humanity. New technology offers many wondrous things and so with the arrival of different problems that will require different solutions as well. We as a responsible individual must do our part for the betterment of our future and must held hands together in preventing massive disruption.
That was all about technology for me. I’m not against technology, in fact I’m enjoying new technologies right now it is part of my daily living. I just want to share the facts I learned for us to be aware and for us to make actions to avoid such thing in happening. I am hoping that Nanotechnology will be used in positive way for the benefit of mankind and our mother earth.
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