Posted on 04/14/2005 7:37:43 AM PDT by bedolido
Futuristic microscopic devices may be able to store energy, raise farm output and purify water to help the world reach 2015 goals of curbing poverty.
According to scientists at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JBC), nanotechnology - the design and use of molecule-sized devices - is also likely to have wide uses in diagnosing disease and cutting air pollution.
"This is the most educated of educated guesses," JCB director Peter Singer said of the most likely applications for nanotechnology in 10 years, predicted in the JCB poll of 63 experts from around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
why is that?
Is that the same Singer of infanticide infamy?
Bloodshot bump.
Oh. Then I stand corrected :-)
No kidding. Singer's solution is to kill all the babies and then poverty will go away.
Surely the prophet - a piece of him be on you - must have condemned this devil technology.
You know of course that in fact just the opposite is the truth. We define the middle class as poor and the well fed as hungry for the sake of getting government money to "fix" these problerms, and to use in heart breaking ads to bilk money from the duped!
I think a far more realistic solution to the potable water problem was devised by Mitch Kapor - it was powered by something most people don't even know about - the Stirling engine.
Pretty small ... I guess that's why the article didn't include a picture. Or, maybe it did and I just couldn't see it.
I read a cia report that basically said nano tech, while having plenty of good uses, will also be a major national as well as a human threat in the wrong hands in the coming years. It will someday be possible to create nanobots that can totally attack and ruin a countrys infrastructure or, more frighteningly, attack/kill anyone with a specific dna; killing off a specific race of people or anyone with blue eyes, for example.
The problem isn't growing the food or securing good water. The problem is distribution. If the dictators of Zimbabwe, North Korea, Cuba, and so on are removed from the picture, food and water will make it to those who need it. And at some point those people will be able to provide for themselves (again).
Zimbabwe is the perfect example -- the "Breadbasket of Africa" turning into "Hell on Earth" because of a sick culture embodied in one man, Mugabe.
Now that is just about the dumbest phrase I've heard all week. These morons think it's only the right magic we're missing. Nothing ever requires work, or responsibility, or action, or direction, or helping each other over the wall, or consistent values, etc. etc...
a little magic will do.... Poof! poverty is eradicated....
::sigh:: no wonder Bill Clinton was elected twice.... makes me seriously consider whether allowing everyone to "vote" is such a good idea after all.....
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