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Nanotechnology : ethical and social implications / editor, Ahmed S. Khan.
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English
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Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, ©2012.
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xx, 345 pages : illustrations, forms ; 25 cm.
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T14.5 .N343 2012
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Nanotechnology
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Social aspects
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Nanotechnology
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Nano and energy series
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Nano and energy
Summary note
"Historically, every new technological advance and innovation remakes the world. The time to remake the world has become shorter with every new technological revolution. The Industrial Revolution took almost two centuries to reshape the world, the electronics revolution around 70 years, the information revolution two decades, and innovations in biotechnology and nanotechnology to reshape the world could be just a matter of less than a decade. The projected impact of nanotechnology has been touted as a second industrial revolution--not the third, fourth, or fifth, because despite similar predictions for technologies such as computers and robotics, nothing has yet eclipsed the first. Society is at the threshold of a revolution that will transform the ways in which materials and products are created. How will this revolution develop? The opportunities that will develop in the future will depend significantly upon the ways in which a number of challenges are met. As we design systems on a nanoscale, we develop the capability to redesign the structure of all materials--natural and synthetic--along with rethinking the new possibilities of the reconstruction of any and all materials. Such a change in our design power presents tremendous social and ethical questions. To enable our future leadership to make decisions for sustainable ethical, economic nanotechnological development, it is imperative that we educate all nanotechnology stakeholders about the short-term and long-term benefits, limitations, and risks of nanotechnology. The social implications of nanotechnology encompass many fundamental areas such as ethics, privacy, environment, and security"--Preface.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Nanotechnology : an introduction to applications and ethical and social issues / Ahmed S. Khan
What's different ethically about nanotechnology? : foundational questions and answers / Robert E. McGinn
The beginning of ethics : Confucius and Socrates / Jiyuan Yu
Ethics : a conservative Christian perspective / Gene Anderson
Nanotechnology : ethical and social issues / Fidel M. Salinas, Denise M. Smith, and Shekar Viswanathan
The unanticipated consequences of technology / Tim Healey
Portraits in carbon / Todd Neff
Nanotechnology : environment and ecology / Deb Newberry
Our biopolitical future : four scenarios / Richard Hayes
Nanotechnology in food and agriculture / Ahmed S. Khan
The future of food : an introduction to the ethical issues in genetically modified foods / Margaret R. McLean
Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) : a versatile semiconducting material for environmental and antibacterial applications / M.A. Shah
What are the social implications of our delay in teaching nanoscience education to K-12 students in the United States? / Judith Light Feather
Nanotechnology research and science, technology and society education at Bilkent University / Haldun M. Ozaktas
Application of simulation for emulating nanotechnology and emerging technologies in education / Ahmed S. Khan
Predicting the future : review of public-perception studies of nanotechnology / Michael Siegrist
Epilogue: Nanotechnology--the size of the cosmos versus the size of human knowledge / Ahmed S. Khan.
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9781439859537 ((hardback))
1439859531 ((hardback))
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2012008934
OCLC
659750520
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