Forbes’s list of the Top Ten Nanotech products is interesting for a few reasons. One, I had no idea nanotech was already in so many products. Two, please, people, stop using nano in your product names right away. It’s already starting to sound lame. Three:
nanotechnology-enhanced cosmetic treatments penetrate deep beneath the surface and affect the base molecular layer. Take Plenitude Revitalift antiwrinkle cream by L’Or�al Paris, which introduced its first nanotechnology product in 1998. Plenitude uses a patented 200-nanometer nanotechnology process to incorporate vitamin A inside a polymer “capsule.” The capsule acts like a sponge, soaking up and holding the cream inside until the outer shell dissolves under your skin (emphasis mine)
It might be because it wasn’t that long ago that I read Prey but am I the only one not super enthused with molecular level stuff disolving under your skin? How well tested are those products? Yeah, I know, we already have chemicals and all kinds of radiations everywhere, bla bla. I dunno, just sounds worse somehow.
[Later] A new microscope to research those risks.
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I don’t know, having read Prey, nanotechnology to me sounds completely hilarious and not likely to occur.
Oh, wait, perhaps that’s just Crighton’s writing.
I finished Prey last week. It was a bit over the top but I got his point loud and clear.
It really is something we should have a better handle on before we start messing around because we’ve already seen how computer virii can get out of hand and this is just a physical manifestation of that.
I highly doubt this is an issue we’ll be dealing with in the next 5 to 10 years but it is a risk.