Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"Sabrina is no-longer merely Sabrina"



This is a video linking nanotechnology and "synthetic human evolution." According to the video, were are already at this point now.

As discussed in my previous NanoFutures posts, this raises an awful lot of philosophical questions about where we actually want science to lead us.

To me, the biggest problem with educational videos, such as this one, is that it really tells the viewer nothing about what existing nanotechnology is; at the same time, it links the term to a grab-bag of future technologies that the public may or may not be in favor of. Meanwhile, there ARE nanotechnologies already here. However, they're not being discussed.

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