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Originally Posted by peter12
So you can't respond. That's pretty obvious to me, anyway. It's not about ignorance and it's not about "everyone" in the scientific community. It's about cultural attitudes towards science. I just don't think you have any idea what that means.
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Ok I'll play ball with you. A recent conference I was at, one the panal discussions was on the ethics of microfluedics. The idea behind this nanotechnology was the implementation Moore's Law'ing down medical devices so that end customer could do in vivo testing at the palm of their hand for a penny a pop. This varies from the precision of low noise, high linearity signal precision circuits, to their I/O interface, sensors, their performance over temperature and how well process variations would be over a streamlined performance such as TSMC. Typically, it can be associated that low noise circuits are low power, sans the biasing circuitry which may depend on how you much you want to mitigate the low frequency noise (i.e. flickr noise) or offset. Off coarse, to get these precisions, you may need mixed-signal circuits such as PLL's and so forth. This could have huge environmental issues involved. The primary research, as I said, is Moore's Law'ing down these into a streamlined process such as one offered by TSMC. For 45 minutes, the ethics were discussed in great detail.
You go. What are your thoughts?
(yes I could have said that in english, it was pretentious on purpose)