Comments on: Nanotechnology advice from philosopher & physicist surprisingly useful http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2353 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: tsraghavan http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2353#comment-345098 tsraghavan Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:38:07 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2353#comment-345098 Want advice on suitable product on nanotechnology to manufacture with an outlay of £ 100000in Bangalore \India. Now I am in glasgow and may out in Nov. Help solicited. Want advice on suitable product on nanotechnology to manufacture with an outlay of £ 100000in Bangalore \India. Now I am in glasgow and may out in Nov. Help solicited.

]]> By: ERabani http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2353#comment-55069 ERabani Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:48:34 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2353#comment-55069 There's still something of a premise bias about this, albeit the prevailing one--i.e. whether mnt poses unacceptable risks. Given the sorry state of the world at large, here are some other risks to ponder: Can the international community get it together and do anything significant to prevent global warming induced catastrophes? Can the global economy be anything other than dysfunctional at lifting the poorest billion souls out of grinding poverty? (There have been decades of optomistic rhetoric about this and yet the absolute number of people in poverty has generally kept increasing.) To my mind strong mnt could make a major difference in each of these as well as numerous other problems. Anyone pretending to do a cost-bennefit analysis of mnt should at least consider the opportunity costs of failing to avail mnt to solve these problems. Perhaps the needed perspective is other than Western elites. Perhaps risk assessments need to be done in places like Tuvalu, Mexico and sub-Saharan Africa and India where these conditions are perhaps more immediately felt. There’s still something of a premise bias about this, albeit the prevailing one–i.e. whether mnt poses unacceptable risks. Given the sorry state of the world at large, here are some other risks to ponder:

Can the international community get it together and do anything significant to prevent global warming induced catastrophes?

Can the global economy be anything other than dysfunctional at lifting the poorest billion souls out of grinding poverty? (There have been decades of optomistic rhetoric about this and yet the absolute number of people in poverty has generally kept increasing.)

To my mind strong mnt could make a major difference in each of these as well as numerous other problems. Anyone pretending to do a cost-bennefit analysis of mnt should at least consider the opportunity costs of failing to avail mnt to solve these problems. Perhaps the needed perspective is other than Western elites. Perhaps risk assessments need to be done in places like Tuvalu, Mexico and sub-Saharan Africa and India where these conditions are perhaps more immediately felt.

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