Assertion: nanotechnology's effect | /r/HasProperty | understood
Facets:
value: hardly
type: DEGREE
value: properly
type: DEGREE
value: well
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Chemical pesticides were not considered harmful when they were first used in the early decades of the 20th century; it wasn't until the 1960s and 1970s that their potentially harmful effects were properly understood.
text: While the wide ranging effects of the financial crisis on the venture capital and research markets have yet to be understood, it is clear from the example of the integrated circuit industry that nanotechnology and nanoscience promise to (sooner or later) transform our IT infrastructure.
text: The effects of, for example, distributed knowledge production, are hardly well understood, as the recent Wikileaks events have demonstrated.