A survey in London reveals that most Britons have no idea what nanotechnology is and the rest think it will have a beneficial effect in the future <\/p>\n
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LONDON: Most Britons have never heard of Nanotechnology and have no idea what it is, according to a survey released. <\/p>\n
But the majority of the 29 per cent of people questioned in the poll who were aware of it think the ultra-small scale technology will have a beneficial effect in the future. <\/p>\n
The survey was carried out by the Royal Society, an academy of leading scientists and the Royal Academy of Engineering. <\/p>\n
\"Nanotechnology involves studying and working with matter at an ultra-small scale, and a nanometer is just one-millionth of a millimeter in length. It is not really a shock to discover that most people have not heard about nanotechnology, because it is still a relatively young field,\" said Professor Nick Pidgeon, a member of a scientific working group on nanotechnology. <\/p>\n
Only 19 per cent of the 1,005 adults in Britain who participated in the poll were able to give some sort of definition of nanotechnology. Sixty-nine percent of people who had an idea of what it was said it would make things better in the future. <\/p>\n
Nanotechnology has fascinated scientists with its possibilities to develop minuscule computers and tiny medical devices. But it has also inspired fears about the dangers of nanoparticles and a fictional account of a plague of self-replicating robots turning the world into gray goo. <\/p>\n
Two workshops conducted with the public to explore their views about the technology revealed that people reacted both positively and negatively when it was explained to them. <\/p>\n
People thought it would be useful in medicine for early diagnosis and treatment but had concerns about its reliability and long-term potential side effects. <\/p>\n
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