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Running Head: Nano Technology and Nano Machines in Production

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TECH 491- Senior Project

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Update 6

Introduction

Nanotechnology is one of the newly discovered fields that is developing at a rapid rate. It is a field that has a wide range of application especially in areas such as in hospitals, industries, factories, beauty therapies among others but it seems to have a negative effect which affects individuals and environment in an adverse way. The discussion, therefore, will be based on the demerits of the nanotechnologies and nanoparticles during the production process.

The nanomaterials are a threat to the environment because they cannot be detected or controlled and therefore can cause a hazardous effect on the environment. They can also cause health effect to the people since they cause breathing difficulties which can result in severe damage to the respiratory system and finally lead to death. The technology is known to cause water and air pollution or simply Nano pollution which affects the living organism living in terrestrial and marine areas. The Nano contaminants cause environmental effects this is because when the volcanoes and ocean happen to release ash and waves respectively they can burst and this can cause harm to the living and nonliving things.

The technology is used in DNA manipulation to fulfill an evil act such as removing a person DNA to cause murder to them or removing health organism materials without the owner knowledge which would affect the body metabolism and finally leads to death. The nanoparticles are large and are susceptible, a factor that makes them be absorbed by macromolecules in the human body and this affect the biological process and hence the normal body functioning. Also, the carbon nanotubes are harmful just like asbestos when inhaled since they cause mesothelioma cancer (Ruijun, L. I., Chen, C. H. E. N., Dandong, L. I., Kuang-Chao, F. A. N., Cheng, Z., Huang, Q., & Xueming, D. A. N. G., 2017).

The nanotechnology is a posing a big threat since it leads to mass production of the atomic, nuclear weapons, war machines biochips among others that are used to cause the destruction of properties and killing of people.

The nanoparticles that contain silver are bacteriostatic and they inhibit the growth of bacteria that can be helpful in breaking down the organic materials in soil and in water and this means no enrichment of soil hence fertility would decrease and this would lower the growth of agricultural products. The silver nanoparticles that are used to remove the foot odor can be detrimental if released into the water sources.

The use of the Nano technological devices and machines lead to unemployment since they have replaced the human labor as they seem to be faster and efficient. This has lowered increased interdependence ratio and hence lowered the standard of living. Nanotechnology cause social implication since their products replace the natural substances and therefore the farmers and industries that rely on the production of natural substances will adversely be affected financially and this leads to loss of jobs. Also, there will be a great loss to those countries that depend on agricultural products for exports as the nanomaterials produced will replace the agricultural products.

The technology has led to the death of small growing industries this is because it uses all the nanoparticles leaving none of the by-products and hence low-quality products that are made of coal or petroleum. Nanotechnology is expensive and the company incurs a lot of costs and because of this few companies can afford to buy and maintain. The increased use of the nanotechnology has decreased the demand of commodities such as oil, copper, and diamond since the nanotech seem to be more efficient and consume less fossil fuel a factor has made copper, oil and diamond to lose its value.

Finally, the technology leads to an ethical issue where the engineers become more intelligent and stronger and this leads to discrepancy in the social status as there will be people of low class. It also leads to ethical issues related to health in that it causes the poisoning of the products that it processes since the coatings on those products are poisonous and can penetrate to human brains where they lead to a mental problem (Tseng, K. H., Lee, H. L., Chiu, J. L., Tien, D. C., & Kao, Y. S, 2015).

Conclusion

Though the nanotechnology has proved to be useful in various fields it has caused a lot of dangers to the life forms on the environment and therefore people should use it to a certain level; as this would help in reducing environmental and social implications caused by nanotechnology (Ali, N. A., Aleyadeh, W., & AbuElkhair, M. , 2016).

Update 7 will touch on collaboration of Nanotechnology with higher learning institutions