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NANOTECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION: THE NEW FRONTIER OF SCIENCE

Nanotechnology is the new frontier of science. This technology has applications in all existing and potential industries. Currently being implemented in industries as diverse as medicine, biology, environment, information technology, construction, ... The molecular nanotechnology is a new emerging science that involves the use of all types of nano-sized instruments (which is a size not much greater than that of atoms or molecules), which are not governed by the laws of conventional physics. These instruments are nanotechnology Nanoparticles, nanotubes, nano-robots, ... that may form nano-scale anything. You are almost unbelievable considering applications such as nano self-replication of molecules. All the precise definitions can be found at:
concepts of nanoscience's father, Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1959), who in 1959 was proposed to manufacture products based on a rearrangement of atoms and molecules. In 1959, the great physicist wrote an article that examined how computers work with individual atoms could consume very little energy and achieve amazing speeds.

Faced with this new technology and its infinite applications, Charles Vest (former president of MIT), said "that nanotechnology will lead to a second industrial revolution in the twenty-first century." Vest
This assertion has some important implications as to the use of this technology in all fields of human knowledge has a potential and implications for the human being, in my humble opinion, is not ready yet . These implications, both social, and economic, political, etc. humans is not yet prepared to assume, as the technology gap may be unbridgeable technology gap, and would create tremendous social desilguades. Although it should be noted that the problem may be part of the solution, because in one case might be all you need to develop technology to an entire city.
Nanotechnology is a science, emerging but rapidly developing, and when the science is mature it will expand within a few years. The latest discoveries in this area are: desalination of sea water, sunscreen, new plastic material capable of attracting and repelling water, stroke and Alzheimer detector, clothes that fights toxins, new methods to diagnose cancer, molecular motors that start with chemical energy, ... amazing! In March 2004 researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created nanoparticles capable of cleaning contaminated sites and eliminate toxic elements pollution. Received wide media coverage. And in the book Engines of Creation, Drexler envisions nanobots capable of destroying cancer cells, collect radicals or repairing damage in the cell tissues.
At this point, we will analyze the benefits and risks of this science. Benefits are
every imaginable by anyone, once examined all fields of knowledge covered by this technology could solve water shortages, combat infectious diseases, supply all the world's energy and with minimal costs, reduce environmental impacts, You could make cheap equipment and advanced medical research and health, with much greater availability of advanced medicines, let endless applications.
risks, basically it could reduce the applications to give you the human being to this new technology. Hence, my idea that we must take great care with this technology. Faced with this new technology global applications must prepare before the changes. This preparation should act in all social, economic, judicial, psychological, ...
Before the industrial revolution (also in my opinion), in an increasingly globalized world, we need to act consciously and take advantage of all the advantages that we provide this technology.