by Andrew Maynard | Aug 29, 2018 | Emerging Technology, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
I was a newly minted Ph.D. when I first saw Jurassic Park. It was June 1993, and my wife and I were beginning to enjoy our new-found freedom, after years of too much study and too little money. I must confess that we weren’t dinosaur geeks. But there was something about the hype surrounding the movie that hooked us. Plus, we fancied a night out.
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 23, 2018 | Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation
I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey on a small black and white TV, tucked in a corner of my parents’ living room. It was January the first 1982, and I was sixteen years old…
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 22, 2018 | Risk, Risk Bites, Science Communication, YouTube
It’s been a while coming, but the YouTube channel Risk Bites has just hit 10,000 subscribers. It may not sound a lot when compared to some YouTube mega-channels, but for a low-budget channel that occupies the space between academic expertise and people who just...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 21, 2018 | Nanotechnology, Public Perception
This month’s copy of the journal Nature Nanotechnology has a commentary in it by myself and colleague Justin Kidd, where we ask whether manufacturers of nano-enabled water treatment products are in danger of second-guessing consumer views. The commentary draws...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 21, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting short excerpts from Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies ahead of the book’s publication on November 15 — visit regularly to read the latest, and remember that you can...
