Ethical Considerations on Nanotechnology

TL;DR

This paper discusses the ethical issues and societal implications of nanotechnology, emphasizing the importance of ethical boundaries and the impact on societal values as the field advances.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of ethical considerations and societal impacts of nanotechnology, highlighting the need for ethical boundaries in its development.

Findings

Ethical concerns are closely linked to nanotechnology development.

Nanotechnology impacts societal values and requires ethical guidelines.

The paper emphasizes the importance of ethical boundaries in nanotech applications.

Abstract

Since a significant time ago, although time runs very fast,nanotechnology transformed from one of the most promising scientific hopes in uncountable human domains into a marvelous certainty. Innumerable scientific studies in several areas of knowledge were made since nanoscale emergence, carrying their contribution to the nanoscience development, leading to a great development of technical and scientific knowledge but also raising numerous problems in the ethical field. In this work, nanotechnology is discussed both in terms of ethics and in terms of borders that nanotechnology applications must satisfy and concluding notes are presented, highlighting the results of the analysis. Significant considerations are made on the close connection between ethics and the nanotechnology and the effects over the society and values.