The art of regulating nanotechnologies

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 26, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation

The recently published International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies has a rather unconventional cover image. But it’s one that I must confess I am rather pleased with. The image is a photo of a piece of Murano glass that I picked up several years ago...

Crowdsourcing “sinful” images for a tech talk – can you help?

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 23, 2011 | Communication, Emerging Technology

How would you illustrate the “Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency” (see below)? On March 8, I’m giving a combined Second Live/Real Life talk on emerging technologies, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.  This will be a rather tongue in cheek...

Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for safe & productive workplaces

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 19, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology

In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s...

The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: Nanotoxicology and Beyond

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 9, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Recommended

Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I fancied co-authoring a review on nanotoxicology for a copy of Toxicological Sciences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology (coming out later this year)....

Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state of the world

by Andrew Maynard | Feb 1, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Recommended, Technology Innovation

Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I can’t...

Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversations this year, but where’s the science?

by Andrew Maynard | Jan 29, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Oversight, Policy, Technology Innovation

Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this...