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09-02-2012 19:30 Jacque Fresco on Primetime Weekend. Aug. 02, 2002 http://www.thevenusproject.com

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The field of nanotechnology has been on the defensive for reasonable causes, such as the safety of workers that handle certain nanomaterials. But it also finds itself under attack from the purely fanciful, like charges of nanotechnology compromising our privacy.

The latest misleading screed on this particular avenue of inquiry comes from the International Business Times (IBT) in which we are told that personal privacy is not only "dead but getting deadlier with nanotechnology."

I have noted previously the rather imaginative approach the publication IBT takes to nanotechnology, and I know that I probably should just ignore them. But these stories keep ending up in my hopper and I suppose I am not the only one for whom this occurs. So I am taking it upon myself to call this publication out again for their less than accurate reporting on the subject.

First off, whatever personal privacy people think nanotechnology is taking away from them has long since disappeared with the existing potent combination of information technology, basic telecommunication technology and a video camera at every street corner. But this is ignored because the idea of an invisible nanorobot spying on you is just too seductive for these reporters.

What we get from IBT is: Just imagine a spy invisible to your eye trace out your name, address, passport, driving license, SSN, health conditions, shopping or net surfing habits and just about everything else that governs your life in a day. All this is possible with the use of nanotechnology. UmhI though we got all of that with the Internet?

Then we get this bit that manages to get a number of matters mixed up: For instance, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pouring funds into nanocomputing because National Security Agency (NSA) is looking for faster ways to break codes. Till now, the NSA could break only up to 140 or so prime number encryptions and each set of decryption needed to be done serially.

My first question when I read this was: What could the reporter possibly be thinking of when he uses the term nanocomputing? I can only guess that they have confused quantum encryption and quantum computing with something they call nanocomputing.

From there it gets even sloppier. We get two ideas brought together in the same paragraph that have absolutely no connection to one another: Scientists from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University have already replicated Quantum Computing with light in 2001 which made computing applications far easier. Nanotubes and nanowires are already developed and are racing to industrial fabrication. I can only guess how these two sentences might be related to one another in the reporters mind, and my guesses scare me.

I suppose I should just dismiss articles like this and not even bring them to peoples attention. But Ive seen before how these fear-mongering articles lead to more ignorance and misunderstanding. And that ignorance and misunderstanding actually can turn deadly as evidenced by the attacks of a terrorist group in Mexico last year.

In that case, the terrorists were attempting to defend the world from "grey goo" by sending letter bombs to researchers they suspected of conducting nanotechnology research. Perhaps they would haven't been motivated to carry out their senseless act if more news stories covered how the theoretical grey goo resulting from nanobots devouring the world around them was a concept that had long been abandoned by the originator of the idea.

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NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Global Nanotechnology Industry

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The global outlook series on Nanotechnology provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers a bird's eye view of this new, promising, and pulsating, potential laden industry. The report provides a rudimentary insight into the concept of nanotechnology, providing selective insights into major technology trends, and its impact on commercial applications in key end-use industries. Also included is a compilation of recent mergers, acquisitions, and strategic corporate developments. Annotated with market data-rich tables enumerating key research findings, the global and regional level of discussion culminates to provide a macro-level perception of the industry in its totality. Key regional markets briefly researched and abstracted include the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, France, Germany, Russia, UK, Asia, China, and Australia among few others. Also included is an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder directory listing the addresses, and contact details of 758 companies worldwide.

1. OVERVIEW 1

Nanotechnology - The Builder's Final Frontier 1

The Coming of Nano-Age 1

Expect the Unexpected 1

A Conceptual Definition 2

What is Nanotechnology? 2

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14-02-2012 08:12 NANOTECHNOLOGIES An adventure from small to even smaller In recent years great progress has been made in the study of small and even smaller objects. With electron and atomic force microscopes one can observe nanometer sizes ie the dimensions of a few atoms. Modern technology allows us to operate on objects of this order of magnitude and opens a new frontier of possible applications. Incredible possibilities are expected as well as new knowledge of that microscopic world bordering on the mysteries of chemical catalysts and the miracle of life. The movie presents at first the observation techniques used by the scientists in the different times to explore the matter with a progressively increasing spatial resolution, till the observation of single atoms, after the discovery of the atomic force microscope. Then the applications of nanostructured materials in different field of technology are considered, like medicine, catalysis, electronics, chemical products, structural materials with enhanced mechanical properties. In particular in medicine applications are considered concerning regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems and investigation of biomolecules like DNA, chromosomes, antibody, virues. http://www.iswaproject.eu

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Luke Jacobs Saturday, February 25, 2012
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Businesses have been urged to make use of nanotechnology to profit from an industry that will soon be worth £51bn.

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Newham College is to host a series of workshops, which will focus on the latest technological advances across a wide range of areas from buildings to fashion.

Researchers believe there are more than 1,300 nanotechnology inspired products - including self-cleaning glass, currently on the market.

Julia Bollam, from Newham College, said they were developing formal nanotechnology training courses for businesses.

She said: “We want to dramatically increase the number of innovative SMEs or small and medium-sized businesses that use and benefit from this technology.”

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01-02-2012 04:59 January 25, 2012 -- One Cell One Light with Dr. Hildegarde Staninger and her guests DR. ZHONG LIN (ZL) WANG nanoscience.gatech.edu and MICHAEL EDWARD blueplague.org Throughout history, new technology has brought a sense of wonderment and fear to those unfamiliar with it. In post-Civil War America, the steam-powered engine brought the possibility of speedier travel, but also the fear of cultural pollution brought about by this ease of movement. Currently, technology changes so rapidly that it often goes unnoticed -- incremental improvements to products we already own don't alert the deep-rooted fear of the unknown that we all share. But with a the practical application of a once-theoretical nanotechnology rapidly becoming reality, those fears are once more rearing their ugly head. But, are they warranted? Dr. Staninger welcomes back to the program Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang, head of a leading group in nanoscience and nanotechnology at the Georgia Institute of Technology; and Michael Edward, who continues to be involved in the research into the health and toxicity problems following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, to discuss the practical applications of nanotechnology remediation and cleanup of toxic substances in the environment. After the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform, nearly five million gallons of crude oil flowed unabated into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, affecting the coastal waters and beaches of Texas, Florida ...

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