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How Will Nano Change the World?

Another nano video contest seeks to answer how nano will change the world

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Thus is posed the question for the new video contest put on by the American Chemical Society. In the first contest, the question was simply “What is Nano?” and it turned out that question was best answered with puppets in full-throated song.

I enjoy watching videos as much as the next guy, but I have not quite figured out what purpose these videos are supposed to serve other than to compete in a contest. Are the editors of the ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News supposed to become informed of how nanotechnology is going to impact the world in a way that they hadn’t considered before? Are these videos supposed to become teaching tools for pre-schoolers as in the case with the puppet video?

I am entertained but I don’t get the purpose, or maybe there isn’t one.

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