Americans: “Do not play God with my nanos”
I made a joke a few days ago in mock mockery of Ray Kurzweil’s declarations on the future melding of man and machine, invoking the religious stance taken against such advancements by what I thought to be a batshit few.
But according to a Science Daily article, the batshit is more substantial in mass and toxicity than I had anticipated. It seems that (from a relatively small polling sample) Americans object to the implementation of nanotechnology for biological purposes in far greater numbers than others polled around the world - whereas 46 percent of UK respondents, 37 percent of Germans and 28 percent of French find the practice morally objectionable, a whopping 70.5 percent of Americans have put their dirty bare self-righteous cavedwelling feet down on the issue.
via io9
