Nano Pollution

For every technological breakthrough there are positive and negative side effects. With nuclear energy we got massive amounts of energy and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but we also got nuclear waste. Nano technology, the idea that we can build self sustaining micro robots, has the same potential.

A recent panel discussed possible pollutants caused by these little guys. It's hard to tell what's real and what's hyped up, but the idea that "Nanomaterials used as filters to remove selected impurities from fluids could result in many small but discrete concentrations of possibly toxic impurities," is a little scary. Living digitally can sometimes get messy.

posted by: DigiDave