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1. What is it?

8. What are its costs & benefits?. 9. How do we evaluate it?. 5. How does it change?. 6. How does it change us?. 7. How do we change it?. 1. What is it?. 2. Why do we use it?. 3. Where does it come from?. 4. How does it work?. 0. Introduction. You are here.

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1. What is it?

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  1. 8. What are its costs & benefits? 9. How do we evaluate it? 5. How does it change? 6. How does it change us? 7. How do we change it? 1. What is it? 2. Why do we use it? 3. Where does it come from? 4. How does it work? 0. Introduction You are here

  2. What are nanotechnology’scosts & benefits? • Enabler vs. Crutch • Complexity vs. Predictability • Catastrophic vs. Chronic • Control vs. Freedom • Progress vs. Obsolescence

  3. Y2.1K Failure Shuts Down Nanobots — Millions Lost Enabler vs. Crutch http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19387&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

  4. Complexity vs. Predictability • Hundreds of patches (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;811113) • 40 million lines of source code (http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/) • How much more complicated than that will our nanotechnology be?

  5. Catastrophic vs. Chronic “Buckyballs cause brain damage in fish” “…one person in five has no access to safe drinking water.” http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4825 http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/nano/planet/144.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm

  6. Control vs. Freedom http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2003-12-31/

  7. Progress vs. Obsolescence Consumer products: ¢ Design information: $$$$ Matter compilers: $

  8. Progress vs. Obsolescence http://ban.org/#HighTechTrash

  9. Anticipated : Direct : Benefits Anticipated Direct Benefits Anticipated Direct Costs Unanticipated Anticipated Direct Indirect Anticipated Direct Benefits Anticipated Direct Costs Anticipated Indirect Benefits Anticipated Indirect Costs Anticipated Indirect Benefits Anticipated Indirect Costs Benefits Costs

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