January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
11h 48m
English
Some of the ethical issues associated with nanotechnology are set out. Any new technology is associated with risk; if the risk can be quantified as a shortening of life expectancy, it is unlikely to be acceptable unless it is associated with a tremendous increase of prosperity. The availability of technology to alleviate unpleasantness, including ill health, can sometimes have unintended effects, such as promoting the lifestyle that led to the ill health. Nanotechnology, as the apotheosis of engineering control, has the potential to be the most dominative power mankind has ever had; the implications of this potential needs to be carefully thought about and our behavior matched to the conclusions ...