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What is the impact of microtechnology ion the society?
Microtechnology has significantly transformed society by enabling advancements in various fields, including medicine, electronics, and environmental monitoring. It has led to the development of smaller, more efficient devices, such as medical implants and wearable health monitors, improving diagnostics and patient care. Additionally, microtechnology enhances communication and computing capabilities, driving innovation in industries like telecommunications and consumer electronics. Overall, it fosters greater connectivity and efficiency, contributing to economic growth and improved quality of life.
What has the author Nathalie Bontoux written?
Nathalie Bontoux has written: 'Unravelling single cell genomics' -- subject(s): Genomics, Methods, Microfluidic devices, Bacterial Genome, Microtechnology, Microbial genomics, Microbial Genetics, Nanotechnology, Microfluidics
What are the three different ways carbon is combined?
trick question.... because there are four the first two are the most widely known they are diamonds and graphite (like in pencils). There is also amorphous carbon (coal is commonly refered to as amorphous carbon but coal is not pure and is therefore not truly amorphous carbon) the final form of carbon is known as fullerines they were not discovered until 1985 and have many uses in microtechnology. There are two other forms but they are fairly unimportaint and there are two more forms of carbon that are still hypothetical.
1 microgram equals how many grams?
1000 micrograms (mcg) is 100 milligrams (mg).
What are the recent advances in automotive electronics?
Ninety percent of innovations in modern cars are based on advances in electronics. Many developments enhance the perceptions of drivers and help them make better decisions faster, thus keeping them safer. Microtechnology is helping reduce the risk of losing vehicle control. Stability control features help prevent rollovers. An adaptive cruise control systems are in the works. They regulate driving at low speeds. This is great in heavy traffic, and cuts back on the driver's shifiting from braking to acceleration. Biometric technology will facilitate automatically measuring the comfort level of anyone in the vehicle, and helping make optimum seating adjustments, and air heating and cooling adjustments. GPS systems have obvious benefits. Other systems can now warn you if a tire is deflating. We are, however, waiting for something more intelligent and relevant than that "Check Engine" light, which usually has nothing to do with the engine per se. Radio tuning is already almost all digital, making hands-off tuning possible. Built-in connectors for music players and cell phones are becoming common. The customer will usually only pay for practical features that enhance the driving experience and driving safety, so there are some possibilities that may never be implemented except in the most costly luxury vehicles. In the end, computers, microtechnology, LCD's, LED's, and fiber optics have revolutionized the automobile. This article is an edited and modified version of the following news article: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/102804/bus_20041028013.shtml
Where can you find the best education in nanotechnology in the world?
MIT and UC Berkley are generally considered the top two nano and microtechnology universities by their peers. On the other hand Small Times (a very well-known nanotechnology magazine) ranks Penn State University as the top nanotechnology research school (MIT and UC Berkley not in top 10), University at Albany SUNY as the top university in nanotechnology education (MIT and UC Berkley not in top 10) and facilities (MIT and UC Berkley not in top 10), and Arizona State University as the top university in nanotechnology commercialization (MIT and UC Berkley not in top 10). For a more complete list of rankings, see the attached article from Small Times.
What are the different branches of technology?
The various major branches of technology are: Applied Science - artificial intelligence, ceramic engineering, computing technology, electronics energy, energy storage, engineering physics, environmental technology, materials science, materials engineering, microtechnology, nanotechnology, nuclear technology, and optical engineering. Athletics and Recreation - camping equipment, playground, sports, and sports equipment. Information and Communication - communication, graphics, music technology, speech recognition, and visual technology Industry - construction, financial engineering, manufacturing, machinery, and mining. Military Science - military technology, weapon systems, military equipment, and military training. Domestic (Residential) - domestic appliances, domestic technology, educational technology, agriculture, and food products. Engineering - aerospace, agricultural, bioengineering, biochemical, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, electronics, environmental, industrial, materials, mechanical, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, software, structural, and tissue engineering. Health and Safety - biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cheminformatics, fire protection technology, health technologies, pharmaceuticals, and safety engineering. Transport - aerospace, aerospace engineering, marine engineering, motor vehicles, space technology, and transport.
What has the author Andrew Britton written?
Andrew Britton has written: 'Katharine Hepburn (A Movie Book)' 'American, The' 'Economic growth in the market economies, 1950-2000' -- subject(s): Gross national product, Economic history, Economic forecasting, History 'Achieving monetary union in Europe' -- subject(s): Monetary unions, Monetary policy 'Talking Films' 'Employment, Output and Inflation' 'The family in \\'
What kind of Technology was in 1970?
A lot of technology you still have today. Some you don't - in 1970, men went to the moon, which they cannot do now. There were computers, but no personal computers. No computers on a chip. No electronic calculators. We used typewriters and sent mail on paper. No cellphones, all phones were land lines except walkie-talkie radios used by military, fire, police, and taxi. The TV signal was analog, less than VGA, and color TV was still expensive enough that a lot of folks watched black and white. Satellite communication existed but was expensive, and so were cables under the sea. If you made an international call you generally used a human operator to set it up and it could cost you a day's salary to talk for 15 minutes. Cars were commonplace and jet aircraft were fairly normal, but still expensive. Deregulation, which reduced prices to make jet travel common, would not happen until President Carter. Trains, boats, and trucks were similar to today except containerization was still rare, so shipping things was still expensive and slow. Clothes, food, houses, those things were not so different than today. Just, not so globalized. Answering machines were rare and expensive. Reel to reel tape recorders were expensive and unusual, mostly used in studios. Cassettes (even 8-track) were not around yet. A small transistor radio was about the size of a paperback book. No Walkman, no boom-box. MacDonalds was very new and not found in all cities. Traffic lights were on a fixed cycle, they did not detect cars waiting. Radio was AM or FM, there were no digital technologies for voice or video, except for using digital encoding (similar to ISDN or 8-bit WAV) for some long distance lines. Aspirin was still the painkiller, and penicillin was still the antibiotic. Heart transplants had been done? Medical science was not too clear on what caused heart disease, and there were no cures for cancer apart from surgery. There was not yet a consensus that smoking caused cancer. No nanotechnology, actually not even microtechnology. But most kinds of heat engines - steam, gasoline, diesel, jet - were almost as good as today, and so were electric generators and motors. The USA and Canada took electricity to be normal, as did most of western Europe and Japan.
What are beneficial and harmful effects of materials?
Materials Engineering can be subdivided into the following sub-fields: Nanotechnology - rigorously, the study of materials where the effects of quantum confinement, the Gibbs-Thomson effect, or any other effect only present at the nanoscale is the defining property of the material; but more commonly, it is the creation and study of materials whose defining structural properties are anywhere from less than a nanometer to one hundred nanometers in scale, such as molecularly engineered materials. Benefits: microelectronic advances Harms: electronic monitoring devices (bugs) Microtechnology - study of materials and processes and their interaction, allowing microfabrication of structures of micrometric dimensions, such as MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Benefits: improved computer hardware Harms: increased sedentary activity, obesity, and diabetes caused by spending more time at the computer & less time exercising Crystallography - the study of how atoms in a solid fill space, the defects associated with crystal structures such as grain boundaries and dislocations, and the characterization of these structures and their relation to physical properties. Benefits: Improved glass products Materials Characterization - such as diffraction with x-rays, electrons, or neutrons, and various forms of spectroscopy and chemical analysis such as Raman spectroscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), chromatography, thermal analysis, electron microscope analysis, etc., in order to understand and define the properties of materials. Benefits: Greater understanding of the properties of materials Metallurgy - the study of metals and their alloys, including their extraction, microstructure and processing. Benefits: Improved, stronger, more durable metal alloys Biomaterials - materials that are derived from and/or used with biological systems. Benefits: Improved medical therapies, greater human longevity Harms: Ethical concerns about artificial insemination, cloning, stem cell research, and other issues Electronic and magnetic materials - materials such as semiconductors used to create integrated circuits, storage media, sensors, and other devices. Benefits: More data storage in hard drives and RAM chips Harms: Greater ability of government and private firms to accumulate massive personal data about any and every individual Tribology - the study of the wear of materials due to friction and other factors. Benefits: Greater durability of construction and clothing materials Forensic materials engineering - the study of material failure, and the light it sheds on how engineers specify materials in their product Benefits: Greater ability of law enforcement to identify criminals and establish their guilt Harms: Greater ability of Big Brother to encroach on private activities; increasingly larger prison populations.
How can you tell which materials are useful or harmful?
Materials Engineering can be subdivided into the following sub-fields: Nanotechnology - rigorously, the study of materials where the effects of quantum confinement, the Gibbs-Thomson effect, or any other effect only present at the nanoscale is the defining property of the material; but more commonly, it is the creation and study of materials whose defining structural properties are anywhere from less than a nanometer to one hundred nanometers in scale, such as molecularly engineered materials. Benefits: microelectronic advances Harms: electronic monitoring devices (bugs) Microtechnology - study of materials and processes and their interaction, allowing microfabrication of structures of micrometric dimensions, such as MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Benefits: improved computer hardware Harms: increased sedentary activity, obesity, and diabetes caused by spending more time at the computer & less time exercising Crystallography - the study of how atoms in a solid fill space, the defects associated with crystal structures such as grain boundaries and dislocations, and the characterization of these structures and their relation to physical properties. Benefits: Improved glass products Materials Characterization - such as diffraction with x-rays, electrons, or neutrons, and various forms of spectroscopy and chemical analysis such as Raman spectroscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), chromatography, thermal analysis, electron microscope analysis, etc., in order to understand and define the properties of materials. Benefits: Greater understanding of the properties of materials Metallurgy - the study of metals and their alloys, including their extraction, microstructure and processing. Benefits: Improved, stronger, more durable metal alloys Biomaterials - materials that are derived from and/or used with biological systems. Benefits: Improved medical therapies, greater human longevity Harms: Ethical concerns about artificial insemination, cloning, stem cell research, and other issues Electronic and magnetic materials - materials such as semiconductors used to create integrated circuits, storage media, sensors, and other devices. Benefits: More data storage in hard drives and RAM chips Harms: Greater ability of government and private firms to accumulate massive personal data about any and every individual Tribology - the study of the wear of materials due to friction and other factors. Benefits: Greater durability of construction and clothing materials Forensic materials engineering - the study of material failure, and the light it sheds on how engineers specify materials in their product Benefits: Greater ability of law enforcement to identify criminals and establish their guilt Harms: Greater ability of Big Brother to encroach on private activities; increasingly larger prison populations.
Is it possible that science will give us eternal life?
The previous post, despite it's fervent effort; and not for lack of eloquence or even research, failed to even address the question at hand: Can we gain eternal life through scientific avenues. It is possible (and as some researchers note, inevitable) for us to retain eternal life through science. Predictions lie between 20-30 years before we have a comprehensive cure for death. There appear to be several avenues toward physical eternity; and I'll demonstrate the contributors to that cause in this article. First, each cell in your body contains strands of DNA that determine every property you have. We're in fact 99% similar to Chimpanzees in regards to our DNA. More to the point, a particular gene responsible for the production of an enzyme known as Telomerase; has potential to grant us lives that span centuries and even millenia (provided we aren't hit by a bus during that period). the telomere is a region of repetitive DNA at the end of chromosomes, which protects the end of the chromosome from destruction. As the telomere becomes shorter and shorter, cells replicate less often; eventually reaching a stage referred to as the "Hayflick limit," a point at which a cell can no longer replicate. Growing old is directly associated with the shortening of our telomeres. Telomeres are the treasure chests of life. Not only do they keep cells replicating, studies have indicated that shorter telomeres actually increase your risk of disease. A study of 60 to 75 year olds showed that patients with shorter telomeres had a 300% higher death rate from heart disease, and an 800% higher chance of death from infectious diseases. One of the most important groupings of letters and numbers that will grace humanity in it's period of scientific ascension is called "TA-65," a therapy that lengthens telomeres.(1) With TA-65, it's possible to replenish telomeres as well as reverse the decay that occurs during cell division. Along with breakthroughs regarding the manipulation of these telomeres, advances in medical technology are leading to the cures for cancer. There are multiple treatments currently in FDA clinical trials that show great promise: - A new technology involving blasting cancer cells with radio waves (which are harmless to humans) has been very successful and has researchers excited at the prospects. FDA animals trails have proven 100% successful, curing all malignant cancers. - Cancer resistant mice have been important in determining how to become cancer-free; involving transfusing granulocytes; a kind of white blood cell, which has shown amazing promise towards curing cancer. Basically they take healthy granulocytes from one mouse and transfuse them into cancerous mice. This treatment has also proven 100% effective in clinical trials on animals. Moving past the imminent breakthroughs involving cancer and telomerase; there are many life-improving technologies that are breaking the surface. Using silicon and microtechnology, the replication of organs and tissue has become possible and is now even in use in the United States. It's possible to actually build organs; which could eventually render transplant lists null. Further, advances in nanotechnology have inspired optimism for nanobots which could flow through the blood stream and destroy deposits of plaque or dangerous cells. To conclude, the inevitability of eternal life through science is upon us. Actually if you're willing to pay almost seven thousands dollars twice a year, you could probably live forever. Of course as the commercial demand for the live-forever product increases, the price will invariably go down as the volume of consumption will be massive. The breakthroughs witnessed at this point in history will define humanity for the remainder of it's presence in the universe. If you've ever wondered where we are headed, whether we'd colonize mars, or travel to another solar system... You have the oppurtunity to wait thousands of years to witness it.
