Nanotechnology (2024-2025) | Affiliate Finals Problem | Topic Introduction
Автор: Future Problem Solving
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Our real world topics represent important challenges from business, civics, society, science, and technology and serve as the thematic basis for given problem-solving situations. Each school year, students get 3-5 opportunities to solve important near-future global issues based on their progress in local and regional Future Problem Solving competitions.
#Nanotechnology is the Affiliate Finals Problem for the 2024-2025 competition season.
How might the use of nanotechnology in medicine, healthcare, and other industries affect humanity in the future?
BACKGROUND
Nanotechnology deals with dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers. A single strand of human hair, for scale, is typically 100,000 nanometers thick! At this scale, individual atoms of larger materials can be manipulated. Placing atoms as though they were bricks, nanotechnology has the potential to give control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build powerful, yet microscopic substances.
CONTEXT
Nanotechnology is widely used in food industries, medicine, energy, automobiles, the environment, electronics, textiles, and cosmetics. Nanotechnology has direct benefits for medicine and the environment, but it may have unintended effects, like all technologies. Nanoparticles of typically unharmful materials, for example, can be toxic if inhaled. Not easily observed, nanotechnology poses risks to security and privacy.
QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE
What advances for society could new nanotechnology products enable?
How might nanotechnology benefit all sectors of society?
As the technology becomes more commonplace, how can we prepare for the unexpected risks and dangers associated with its use?
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https://www.fpspi.org/nanotechnology-2/
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