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    Nanotechnology offers many benefits but also raises concerns that must be addressed. It can improve sectors like IT, medicine, energy and more. However, it may introduce new materials and make some natural resources obsolete. As nanotechnology becomes more pervasive, it could be hard to detect without specialist tools. There are also concerns about how nanotechnology may impact employment, military applications, and the balance of power between citizens and governments. While nanotechnology allows new materials to be built at the atomic level, this also raises potential dangers if nanoparticles enter the body and cause cell damage or cross the blood-brain barrier. Proper safety assessments and regulation are needed to address risks to people and the environment from nanotechnology.

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    Nanotechnology offers many benefits but also raises concerns that must be addressed. It can improve sectors like IT, medicine, energy and more. However, it may introduce new materials and make some natural resources obsolete. As nanotechnology becomes more pervasive, it could be hard to detect without specialist tools. There are also concerns about how nanotechnology may impact employment, military applications, and the balance of power between citizens and governments. While nanotechnology allows new materials to be built at the atomic level, this also raises potential dangers if nanoparticles enter the body and cause cell damage or cross the blood-brain barrier. Proper safety assessments and regulation are needed to address risks to people and the environment from nanotechnology.

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    Nanotechnology offers many benefits but also raises concerns that must be addressed. It can improve sectors like IT, medicine, energy and more. However, it may introduce new materials and make some natural resources obsolete. As nanotechnology becomes more pervasive, it could be hard to detect without specialist tools. There are also concerns about how nanotechnology may impact employment, military applications, and the balance of power between citizens and governments. While nanotechnology allows new materials to be built at the atomic level, this also raises potential dangers if nanoparticles enter the body and cause cell damage or cross the blood-brain barrier. Proper safety assessments and regulation are needed to address risks to people and the environment from nanotechnology.

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    THE NANO WORLD

    GROUP 8
    Olavario - Fernandez - Roasa - Abued
    BENEFITS AND CONCERNS OF
    USING NANOTECHNOLOGY:

    Nanotechnology is helping to considerably improve, even


    revolutionize, many technology and industry sectors: information
    technology, homeland security, medicine, transportation, energy,
    food safety, and environmental science, among many others.

    BENEFITS AND CONCERNS OF


    USING NANOTECHNOLOGY:
    However, there are concerns that need to be addressed before using and
    promoting materials derived from nanotechnology:

    •Nanotechnology is not a single technology; it may become pervasive.

    •Nanotechnology seeks to develop new materials with

    specific properties.
    •Nanotechnology may introduce new efficiencies and paradigms which may
    make some natural resources and current practices uncompetitive or
    obsolete.

    •It may be complicated to detect its presence unless one has the specialist
    tools of nanotechnology.
    BENEFITS AND CONCERNS OF
    USING NANOTECHNOLOGY:
    Latest Philippine Research
    Endeavors in Nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology in the Philippines: Development of


    Framework for Technology Adoption
    by Niño Rigo Emil Lim, Gil Nonato Santos, Aristotle Ubando, Alvin B. Culaba

    Nanotechnology in the Philippines: Status and Intellectual


    Property Issues
    by Marilyn B. Brown, Cristine Marie B. Brown, Robert A. Nepomuceno
    Societal and Ethical
    Considerations in Conducting
    Nanotechnology-Related Studies
    Considerations

    Beneficiaries Objectives Relationships


    Who will benefit from What are the objectives How will the study affect
    the study? Who for developing the social, economic, and
    won't? study/product? political relationships?
    Considerations

    Problem Accessibility Risk


    What problem does Who will have access Are there dangers
    the study is trying to to the study? Who will involved with the
    solve? be excluded? study's development?
    Considerations

    Ownership
    Who will own the
    study?
    Why Nanotechnology is a
    Societal and Scientific issue?
    Nanotechnology will have significant
    social impacts in the areas of military
    applications, as well as having an effect
    on labor and the balance between
    citizens and governments.

    MILITARY APPLICATIONS
    The advanced developments in the military technology
    may have implications for societal and political relations
    within the community. Modern defense armies are
    protected from today’s civilian threats in a way that
    never had before. It is likely that nanotechnology will
    further widen the gap between the means of political
    violence available to the military and those available to
    the civilian population.
    EFFECT ON EMPLOYMENT
    The nanotechnology impact on labor is in its use of
    particular factors of production. During the
    improvement of nanotechnology, firms are likely to
    have high demands for the scientists, engineers, and
    technicians who have to build and integrate the new
    ideas into processes and products. In addition, there is a
    need for supporting labor services, which creates career
    opportunities.
    BALANCE BETWEEN THE CITIZENS
    AND THE GOVERNMENTS
    The nanotechnology can be expected to
    concentrate political power in the hands of
    governments. Nanotechnology can be expected to
    be applied to further miniaturize and advance
    surveillance technologies such as cameras, listening
    devices, tracking devices, and face and pattern
    recognition systems.
    Nanotechnology is likely to be
    extremely important in the future as it
    allows materials to be built up atom by
    atom. This can lead to the development
    of new materials that are better suited
    for their purpose,and there are possible
    dangers of nanotechnology.
    The miniature size of nanomaterials and the way their
    surfaces are modified to increase the ease with which
    they can interact with biological systems - the very
    characteristics that make them attractive for
    applications in medicine and industry - makes
    nanomaterials potentially damaging for humans and
    the environment. Nanoparticles are likely to be
    dangerous for three main reasons:
    Nanoparticles may damage the lungs. We
    know that 'ultra fine' particles from diesel
    machines, power plants and incinerators can
    cause considerable damage to human lungs.
    This is both because of their size (as they can
    get deep into the lungs) and also because they
    carry other chemicals including metals and
    hydrocarbons in with them.
    Nanoparticles can get into the body through
    the skin, lungs and digestive system. This may
    help create 'free radicals' which can cause cell
    damage and damage to the DNA. There is also
    concern that once nanoparticles are in the
    bloodstream they will be able to cross the
    blood-brain barrier.
    The human body has developed a
    tolerance to most naturally occurring
    elements and molecules that it has
    contact with. It has no natural immunity
    to new substances and is more likely to
    find them toxic.
    "Nanotechnology offers many
    potential benefits, but its
    development must be guided by
    appropriate safety assessments
    and regulation to minimise any
    possible risks to people and the
    environment."
    Thank you!

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