Ethical Perceptions of College Students on Emerging and Converging Technologies
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this paper will discuss several emerging and converging technologies and college students perceive some of the ethical issues related to the emerging and converging technologies such as biometrics technology, nanotechnology, nanocomputing, expert systems, pervasive computing, and intelligent user interfaces. Keywords-emerging technology , converging technology, ethical
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