A new technology will only be successful if those promoting it can show that it is safe, but history is littered with examples of promising technologies that never fulfilled their true potential and/or caused untold damage because early warnings about safety problems were ignored. The nanotechnology community stands to benefit by learning lessons from this history.
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Foss Hansen, S., Maynard, A., Baun, A. et al. Late lessons from early warnings for nanotechnology. Nature Nanotech 3, 444–447 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.198
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