Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
David Dickson editorial 6 May 2009 : "Nowhere is the promise of nanotechnology stronger than in water treatment. Nanofiltration techniques and nanoparticles can reduce or eliminate contaminants in water and could help deliver a key Millennium Development
Firoze Manji and Molly Kane 2010-10-07, Issue 499 : "The technologies, or more precisely corporate control of the new technologies, represents a potential and growing threat to the continent. A continent that has already faced a turbulent history of colo
Pat Mooney's speech 2003 (30th anniversary of Schumacher's book). the issue here is not simply to look at nanotechnology. What I would invite ITDGPractical Action to consider is that we need to get ahead and analyse what has to be done for us to manage t
En fransman och en tysk - ett sådant par har aldrig delat Nobelpriset förr. Men nu har det hänt: oberoende av varandra upptäckte Albert Fert och Peter Grünberg jättemagnetoresistans, ett magnetiskt fenomen på kvantnivå. På kuppen blev de faddrar till en n
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamenta