1 Introduction:
The Challenge of Nanotechnologies
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Nanotechnologies are making the leap from science fiction to science reality. The overwhelming majority of people have not yet noticed this transition, but the technology of the vanishingly small will be expansively influential in the next couple of decades. For it is not just a new range of technologies but a new social force: a driver of techno-socio-cultural change. Like any other family of radical technologies ‘nanotechnology’ is not just a set of techniques that have appeared independently of society and about which we can now make application-based decisions. It is emerging within an existing nexus of decisions, relationships and values. ...
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