http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/ Engadget Comments for Two-thirds of Americans think nanotechnology is morally unacceptable -- wait, what? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
If an American doesn't know what it is, it must be morally wrong!]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
nanotech holds a lot of risks that aren't fully understood. And currently there is little to no oversight on the industry, which allows for possibly toxic substances whose effects are completely unknown to be created and dispersed. Hit up a few google searches to see that it's not all good. The industry needs oversight.

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We're not talking about Nanocomputing. We're talking about nanotech in general. And the way that it's been put into products that we are in intimate contact with, without prior testing, is probably not morally acceptable.]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Read the link to the article...
...what an idiotic study - a nation's opinin based on 1,015 adult Americans!

HOGWASH AND POPPYCOCK!!! this is bloody FARCE!]]>Feb 20th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Couldn't tell if that was sarcasm, but 1015 people is plenty large enough of a sample size for a national poll. It is simple statistics and a little bit of economics. Actually, most national polls are conducted with this sample size. ]]>Feb 20th 2008 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
But I still think the title should read "two-thirds of Americans do not know about nanotechnology"

Such is the way I'm inclined to believe after seeing some of the videos on Youtube (Miss Teen USA, anyone?)]]>Feb 20th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotoxicology]]>Feb 20th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 21st 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
I mean seriously. Who did they poll for this study? Bible belt evangelists?]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
On that note, there are many, many people who have a problem with destroying one life to save another, not just those pesky, ignorant Bible belt evangelists.]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Evolution? only a monkey would believe that!]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/I can understand the objections to Biotech, even if they don't know waht it is. Hell, the next step could be a 'Bioshock' kind of scenario...which, let's face it, may not be as fun as it was in the game.]]>Feb 21st 2008 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/That's probably true, but in this case 2/3 of Engadget posters couldn't be much more correct.
Petroleum, food, textile, paper, medicine, microchips.... by the kind of technologies that any of these industries (and pretty much any other industry out there) use, our entire lives should be "morally unacceptable". Nanotech might have its dangers, but this sounds a lot like biased surveying. ]]>Feb 25th 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 21st 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
It's more of a catching up to the gridlock traffic, except it may become exponentially gridlocked.

Can't be down on other countries that are going through their own industrial and technological revolutions, no matter how incredibly fast it's happening.]]>Feb 24th 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Must be afraid that bionanotech will lead to human-induced macroëvolution or something. ]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
We need to force ourselves to evolve... because i want robot arms... and a visual hud.]]>Feb 20th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Nonetheless, now that you've brought it up, I think our future evolution is mostly up to us... We are too conscious to just "let things go", and'll do what we want with the best ability we have. And it does seem we change our environment to fit us – any changing for us to fit the environment we'll have to do ourselves, because we won't wait a thousand years (or probably more) for nature, or if we do wait, we'll've screwed it up and have to reverse some of it and advance some of it ourselves.
While I personally don't know nor care if this millenium's global warming is completely human-induced or natural but human-sped-up, global warming's a good example: it seems we can't change the environment (unless it is all of that exhaust we put in the atmosphere), so we're going to have to do something to ourselves when the average obequatorial temperature is 150 'if we can'. . .or we'll build domed and controlled-atmosphered cities, and isolate ourselves from Earth's nature.

Maybe we could put nanoparticals in the air to rid of fumes and the like if they're the main cause. Oh, wait, the majority of the country wouldn't like their health and atmosphered bettered, dumb me.

I want a HUD more than anything. =D]]>Feb 20th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Well from my stand point of living in America. I would say you're right, but after visiting other countries like Canada, Mexico, England, etc. Every country has those type of people. It's just that living in America and American NEWS being transported through the entire world, just magnifies that part of the population. We're all human after all, ignorance and self-bliss is what we do best, because its the easiest thing to do.
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Wouldn't that make it morally right?]]>Feb 20th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Just kidding. It's obvious for me (I hope I'm not wrong) that the people who answered the survey didn't have a clue as to what nanotech is. Either that or people are insanely afraid of nano-bots taking over.

«By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across. the planet.»

-daemonios-]]>Feb 20th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Americans in general are insanely obsessed with America. Guess what, it's not the greatest country ever, and me saying that is not blasphemy.

And sure nanotech is relatively toxic but I seriously doubt that 2/3 of the population knows that.]]>Feb 20th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Wrong. Here in the UK people don't care about anything but what they are told first. The PS3/360 thing is worse now than ever becasue people are just sheep and won't listen to facts once they think they are right.]]>Feb 21st 2008 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
I never saw it, though. I never had the urge.

I prefer "Flashdance" or "Breakin'" myself.]]>Feb 20th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
"Ok, sure."

"What is your position with all this business about NANOTECHNOLOGY? Do you think we, as Americans, should allow this to continue, or is it immoral and unacceptable? Remember, terrorists use NANOTECHNOLOGY."

"Well, Of course it's bad! I don't want any of that in MY town or in these borders!"

"Ok, thank you sir. Question number two. America has made many advancements in the past decade. What do you think about the advancements in the transistor technology that powers our computers, and carbon nanotubes that may bring us new space-age materials, both of which of course will help the war on terror?"

"Absolutely. I believe we would be in the dark ages were it not for those things."

"I see."]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/
Interviewer: Do you trust {Multisyllable word}?

Middle American Interviewee: It don't sound too good, what is it?

Interviewer: It's science, it's used to develop...

Middle American Interviewee: I hate what all these scientists are doing these days, it is morally unacceptable, they think they can play...

Interviewer: I think you've missunderstood...

Middle American Interviewee: You're one of them arn't you I never trust you lot you come from your big cities and tell us what to think, coming over here and forcing us to inject your {Multisyllable word pronounced incorrectly} so that you can control us...

Interviewer: OK, thanks for your time, I think thats another check in the no column]]>Feb 20th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/two-thirds-of-americans-think-nanotechnology-is-morally-unaccept/Feb 20th 2008 7:10AM