I do not doubt that soon we will have the technology to create mass nanotechs. The ability to design and distribute tiny machines that will be able to better our bodies or environment to ensure health and happiness is a major power. What I do doubt is the reality of it and the overall benefit from it.
I do not disagree that nanotechnology is hypothetically an amazing and wonderful invention. It may be able to save lives and cure cancer. The problem is that won't it just become another amazing item that is used to create hierarchy and power? A video we watched in class kept reiterating the word "cheap." It made it sound as though some day you can go to the store buy some nanotech pills and cure your cancer. This is nothing near what it would be. The moment it is invented it will be abused. The richest families in the world would be able to be immortal and have another advantage over the lower socioeconomic society. Nanotechnology could be one of the greatest advances in the history of the world or just another social step backward. If they are controlled at all like car/oil companies, we are all fucked.
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It is in its connection to popular culture where I think hope lies--we will see this in Ribofunk. Think for a moment about the chemistry set and the home computer, although we are talking about the richest %s it is in the way that the technology can potentially escape through other channels. Nanofabrics and cosmetics which can be hacked easily into other things.
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