COSMOS magazine run an ‘un-scientific poll’ in every issue, and I have been keeping my eye on the recent question they asked about what people thought the biggest impact of nanotechnology would be. Most people (45%) thought that ‘It will spawn amazing new materials’, and I would have agreed that this will be the biggest immediate impact. Nanomaterials are already here. The next biggest impact was ‘It will revolutionise drugs and medicine’at 37%. Clearly the most of the readers of COSMOS are optimistic about the future, as only 10% thought it will end up turning us all into grey-goo! (for those of you who have realised that those percentages don’t add up to 100, the remaining 8% thought it would significantly increase our life-span, whether that’s through looking good with dubious sounding “nano” skincare products, or actually living longer and healthier, I’m not sure!)
- 14/03/2008 -
络龙医搜 | 15-Mar-08 at 10:46 pm | Permalink
Nanotechnology, now nowhere in life is not.