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Though NT has innumerable benefits including improved manufacturing methods, improved environment, and water purification systems, efficient renewable energy systems, physical systems property improvement, and performance enhancement, optimization of health problems through nanomedicine, better food production methods, and enhanced nutrition in food, large‐scale infrastructure auto‐fabrication through self‐replicating machines, etc., if not handled properly with creating proper awareness and precautions may have potential disadvantages in terms of risks to the health of living beings, environment, social life, and economy of the countries. Some of the issues related to health, environment, social, economic, and a newly predicted effect called green goo are discussed below: