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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Nanotechnology

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In the past years, science has been continuously expanding; from the simple abacus used in 300 BC, counting devices evolved into complex forms like calculators. Science has helped people do their work easily and effectively like the help of machines for constructing buildings and amputees being provided with synthetic body parts for replacing their missing parts. Not only humans but also plants have benefited from science and its innovations as there are fertilizers that help plants become healthier. During the course of discovering more about the said field, three men were curious about the miniscule particles unseen by the naked eye; these men are Richard Feynman, Norio Taniguchi, and Kim Eric Drexler. On December 1959, the American physicist …show more content…

However, only experts like scientists and researchers who studies on the said topic have conceptual ideas about nanotechnology, about the advantages and disadvantages of the up and coming field of science. The founder of nanotechnology, Eric Drexler, said that his discovery can solve the many problems of society such as the lack of food, medicine, energy, and power. Professor Therese Rosbero, a lab professor in DLSU-Manila, stated that nanotechnology is a field of science in which other products of science such as biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine are applied all at the same time. She said that nanotechnology is composed of nanoparticles which are too small to be seen by the naked eye (Personal communication, 2015). On the other hand, most of the people in the society have zero to no knowledge about the inner parts of nanotechnology. At the early ages of nanotechnology, the public’s perception about nanotechnology is all about optimism and excitement as it poses potential life changing benefits (Priest, 2012). However, that perception of the people about nanotechnology changed as the once hidden properties of nanotechnology are slowly showing their capability to be harmful and less beneficial to society. Even though most of the people do not know anything about …show more content…

Concretely, the research paper examined the downside of nanotechnology which can educate and change the mind set of society that the use of nanotechnology can only bring good to them. First, it is shown that the properties of nanotechnology can make it toxic and harmful to both the health of society and the status of the environment. One property that is present to all nanomaterials is its miniscule size. Nano-particles can enter the body which can cause complications to the body. Second, it is shown in the research paper the health-related hazards that nanotechnology already gave to society and to the environment and also the possible risk that nanotechnology can bestow to both society and environment if nanotechnology is still manufactured. Some past accident are shown in the research paper, one is about chemist or workers on nanotechnology manufacturers. These chemists or workers have accidentally consumed nano-particles which are toxic which lead to multiple diseases like life-threatening allergies, shortness of breath, fibrosis in lungs and appearance of liquid in the cardiovascular and respiratory tracts. Not only human beings are affected by the hazards of nanotechnology but also other living organisms like dogs. Moreover, the future possible hazards are stated and these are nanopollutants, privacy

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