by Andrew Maynard | Dec 25, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Recommended, Synthetic Biology
Ten years ago at the close of the 20th century, people the world over were obsessing about the millennium bug – an unanticipated glitch arising from an earlier technology. I wonder how clear it was then that, despite this storm in what turned out to be a...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 22, 2009 | Engagement
Brain-candy for the intellectually incapacitated. To help the brain cells recuperate from over-exertion (and quite possibly over-indulgence) this Holiday season, here’s a short compendium of mindless games – the sort of things scientists and others indulge...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 10, 2009 | Civic Science, Recommended, Technology innovation in the 21st century
2020 Science is something of a labor of love – it’s a website where I explore my thoughts and ideas surrounding the interface between science, technology and society beyond the constraints of my “day job” (currently Chief Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 9, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Future, Rethinking Science & Technology
The final part of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Nine months ago, I embarked on an ambitious project to flesh out the ideas presented in a seminar given at the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. The...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 7, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
Part 9 of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Writing about completing the circle of science and technology policy at the start of the Copenhagen climate summit seems particularly fitting. Although the climate change context was far...
