Comments on: Nanotechnology to kill bacteria OK in hospitals but suspect in commercial products http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Nanosilver: Websites (Dayna) http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-844851 Nanosilver: Websites (Dayna) Thu, 14 May 2009 02:31:06 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-844851 [...] http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737 *introduced me to how nano-silver is being used in hospitals and alerted me to the fact that consumers are more worried about products that they are interacting with on a daily basis versus an institution using the nano material in a hospital. [...] [...] http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737 *introduced me to how nano-silver is being used in hospitals and alerted me to the fact that consumers are more worried about products that they are interacting with on a daily basis versus an institution using the nano material in a hospital. [...]

]]> By: Lee http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-583752 Lee Thu, 15 May 2008 02:58:35 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-583752 They have had a similar technology in Epoxy coatings for ten years. The bacteria can not grow on the coating but can grow on dirt on the coating. Interesting They have had a similar technology in Epoxy coatings for ten years. The bacteria can not grow on the coating but can grow on dirt on the coating. Interesting

]]> By: EricP http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-583678 EricP Thu, 15 May 2008 00:36:39 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2737#comment-583678 Gotta love Luddites. If every new technology, especially really helpful ones like this, had to disprove a negative before being made available we would never get any progress. As they say, if Aspirin were introduced today, it would never it would never pass muster. The problem with the "concerned scientists" is that they never accept responsibility for the people who are harmed or die while they await "proof". If the harm were hung at their door, they would make more effort to balance their theoretical concerns against real the real-world harm of the delay. Gotta love Luddites. If every new technology, especially really helpful ones like this, had to disprove a negative before being made available we would never get any progress.

As they say, if Aspirin were introduced today, it would never it would never pass muster.

The problem with the “concerned scientists” is that they never accept responsibility for the people who are harmed or die while they await “proof”. If the harm were hung at their door, they would make more effort to balance their theoretical concerns against real the real-world harm of the delay.

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