The Benefits
Even though nanotechnology is relatively new it is quickly evolving and showing signs of helping millions. Nanotechnology is quickly taking over the medical world, once more advanced nanotechnology can save lives, diagnosis quicker and kill diseases far before it begins causing destruction. The medical benefits include the advancement of surgical tools that will be not only cheap but high-tech. The incredibly small component size will allow new kinds of tools which could include a complete surgical robot that can be built smaller than a needle. There are small medical devices that could be implanted permanently which would continuously adjust and take account in the body's chemical balance which could speed up the diagnosis process. Nanotechnology and its small size will be able to replace organs and improve systems to their max potentials medically. Yet, outside the medical realm there are more benefits of nanotechnology including; making solar energy feasible, living spaces will be improved which will greater the lifespan of the regular person, eletronics will be cheap yet very high in quality and strength. To see more benefits click here. (Source 17)
The Risks
| Even though nanotechnology is relatively looked at in a positive view it also has some disadvantages in the world. The disadvantages of nanotechnology include the possible loss of jobs in the traditional farming and manufacturing industry which. during the crisis of today is not needed. Many things will lose value and money because of how quickly nanotechnology can massively produce products, including diamonds which would lose value. The worst of all is that atomic weapons can now be easily made and enhanced to be more powerful and destructive than ever. Many fear that nanoparticles are dangerous because of how relatively small these are and how they are already being widely used in cosmetics, electronics, medicine and food packaging. Many say that nanoparticles are very dangerous because they have been known to alter cell structures which end up causing the cells to die. Click here to learn about the controversy of nanoparticles. Although in the end, nanotechnology is very expensive to research and that is one main disadvantage. (Source 18) |
Impacts
Social Impact The social impacts of nanotechnology include the effect on widening the divide between the rich and the poor because of the advances in healthcare, transport, energy supplies which may only be available to the wealthy. In more detail the specifically developed vs. the developing worlds. Nanotechnology will lower the price of non-renewable items like minerals which developing countries rely on. Many regular people in society fear the thought of nanorobots crawling in their bodies. Many believe that nanorobots could haywire and begin destroying the body from the inside out. (Source 19) |
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| Economic Impact The main economic impact on the world is how expensive it takes to research and further learn about nanotechnology. It takes hundreds upon millions of dollars that many countries and nations of today don't have to waste. Nanotechnology could run society out of agricultural jobs and manufacturing jobs because of how easy it is to mass produce products. (Source 20) |
Political Impact The political impact of nanotechnology includes the creation of deadly massive weapons that could destroy entire countries if necessary, nanotechnology would give feuding countries to easily lead to war. Having such destructive weapons on one's side would leave a country feeling impossible to defeat which would lead to more feuds. Yet the main political impact is the ethics of the people, many will want to stick to the old way of doing things and nanotechnology will be too revolutionary for them. (Source 21) |
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