by Andrew Maynard | Oct 27, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Society
Complete the following: Setting: A well known and sometimes off-beat technology commentator explores new breakthroughs on a popular TV science and tech show. Story: Spiders’ silk is incredibly strong, but in short supply (ever tried harvesting silk from a...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 25, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Public Health, Risk, Technology Innovation
The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up! But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled? The Fall 2010...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 20, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
New technologies depend on uncommon materials, and society depends on new technologies. Which means that economies that develop the former and control the latter have something of an upper hand in today’s interconnected and technology-dependent world. This has...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 16, 2010 | Communication, Education, Engagement, Public Perception
Back in August, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a collection of essays under the editorship of Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholster on the (seemingly) increasingly strained relationship between science and the media. I was too embroiled in the...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 14, 2010 | Emerging Technology
Now that I’ve had some time to get to grips with my new position as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, I thought it was high time I started letting people know something about where the Center will be heading over the next few years. ...
