Too Little Privacy: Ethics of Nanotechnology

by: Amy R. Taylor, Bethany P. Broadwell, M. Gail Jones, and Michael R. Falvo

Advances in nanotechnology allow us to create unique and tiny labels for manufactured materials, create tiny sensors that can detect the presence of specific molecules, and make machines that are so small they can work invisibly. Through a series of scenarios, students confront the potential threats to our privacy as well as the ethics of nanotechnology.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2007Stock # PB210X_19

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