IS NANOTECHNOLOGY A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE IN A POST OIL SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY?
A post oil society implies not only a change in materials, but a total civilization change. In this section we want to concentrate on nanotechnology, which could be considered as a clean solution to various problems of our current society. Nanotechnology is the coming together of techniques used to manipulate material at an atomic and molecular level. It is said that this technology can solve the problems of poverty and under development; however it could profoundly affect society, especially the poorest and marginalized communities. It would open up new work and raw material markets and would change forever the way in which we live, eat, produce, face wars and define life. In the last decades we have seen the growing power of a few companies and the ever increasing privatization of science. The manipulations at a nanoscale constitute an unimaginable potential to achieve an unprecedented monopoly of the fundamental processes for the creation of life and natural resources and form part
