Talk:Impact of nanotechnology

message: I have merged in the lengthy "Societal Implications" section from Nanotechnology.  Antony-22 05:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article fork

message: Someone entered nanosocialism as the main article category for A need for regulation?  section under Health Implications. Nanosocialism is actually a very small stub- not a complete article.  I suspect the label was coined to arouse ideological argument and isn't a useful or even legitimate term for describing the implications of nanotech outside of science fiction.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuvtixo (talk • contribs) 13:56, 25 January 2008
:That's a fair criticism.  I've actually been thinking of renaming Nanosocialism to Regulation of nanotechnology and merging in a bunch of the material from this article, since it's getting pretty long.  Antony-22 (talk) 04:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nanosocialism?- I don't think so!!

message: "Grey goo" is not a potential risk.  
Wikkrockiana (talk) 16:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you expand on that comment? According to grey goo, "Grey goo is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves". -Phoenixrod (talk) 16:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Grey goo"

message: There have been presistent complaints that this article focuses too much on the negative implications of nanotechnology.  I did a bit of thinking and realized that the positive implications are in face all the potential applications, so I've done some reorganization to feature both the risks and applications in this article.
Additionally, I split a bunch of material into three subarticles on the health, envrionmental, and societal implications.  Each of them contains both the risks and the potenial applications with wikilinks to appropriate subarticles.  There is also a new navbox to link them all together.
These articles still need a lot of work, but hopefully these changes have lead to a suite of more focused and more balanced articles.
Antony-22 (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Putting POV issues to rest 

message: I removed the following paragraph from the article:
"On the structural level, critics of nanotechnology point to a new world of ownership and corporate control opened up by nanotechnology. The claim is that, just as biotechnology's ability to manipulate genes went hand in hand with the patenting of life, so too nanotechnology's ability to manipulate molecules has led to the patenting of matter."
Please do not placing back without sourcing.
"Life" or "Matter" themselves can't be patented. A patent can only claim a right over specific uses, applications, or manufacturing processes of a given compound ("matter") or microorganism ("life"). And all of that can only be done in exchange for explaining the new INVENTION in detail. The expression "patenting matter" and "patenting life" make it sound like a supposed greedy corporation could put patents on everyday life forms or materials, that can't be farther from the truth.
Furthermore, patents are case by case legal monopolies, they're not worldwide, and they don't (and can't) cover every conceivable permutation of use and production means of a new invention. I was tempted to remove the entire paragraph but I just removed the most offensive bit.
As I said, don't put back without a proper source, such that the reader can judge on his own merits if the person QUOTED is saying something reasonable or not. Gratuitous and unsourced overgeneralizations in an encyclopedia are uncalled for Pentalis (talk) 19:58, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced, spurious overgeneralization 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Environmental implications of nanotechnology which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 16:30, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: I removed the following list of sources from the article, as all of them are a decade old at this point.  I've pasted it here in case anyone finds it useful. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 01:42, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Studies on the impact of nanotechnology 

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