Social Issues Utility Fog

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Social Issues - Utility Fog
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Module Outcomes

• Reflect and engage with social and ethical
  concerns without fear of judgement
• Gain an understanding of what nanotechnology is
  and its applications
• Gain an understanding of utility fog as a future
  concept
• Consider the future possible social impacts of
  utility fog.

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S.T.A.I.R.
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Activity 1 Life In 2030

• Create a Safe Space

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Activity 2 Awareness

• Any useful idea about the future should appear
  to be ridiculous.

Jim Dator, University of Hawaii, 2005
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Awareness
Nanotechnology is

• Using the properties that emerge for materials at
  a scale of one-billionth of a metre
• as small particles as nanometre sized devices

Nanotechnology has

• Broad applications in performance materials,
  health, consumer products, water, information
  technology and energy
• The potential to make things lighter, stronger,
  more efficient and more effective.

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Foglet
100 microns (1.0 10-4 meters)
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Creation
Levitation
Manipulation
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Fiat 500
Animation courtesy of Adrian Malec _at_
NanoVic Image courtesy of Steven Martin _at_
Wikimedia
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Quote

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is
  indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
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Activity 3 Exploring Issues
Self-Thoughts
Self-Behavior
Environment
Society Culture
Technology
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Social Issues Utility Fog

• What can it do?
• What might this mean?
• What dont we understand?

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Impacts To Consider

• Equity
• Creativity
• Design
• Permanence
• Pace of living
• Consumerism
• Values.

• Health effects
• Environmental impacts
• Governance Regulation
• Power Control
• Rights Responsibilities

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Remember

• Two types of nanotechnologyutility fog only
  hypothetical
• Other nanotechnologies allow for solutions to a
  range of serious global problems
• Utility fog is the invention of one person you
  too can have an impact on the future.

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Revision

• Scale of nanotechnology
• Areas of application of nanotechnology
• Applications of utility fog-hypothetical example
  of nanotechnology
• Positive and negative uses and implications.

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