by Andrew Maynard | Jan 29, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy
There’s been something of a theme running through my day at The World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos today – getting from A to B. The “A” in this case is technology innovation, and the “B” the problems we hope it will solve...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 28, 2010 | Emerging Technology
This evening I was invited to talk to a group of industry leaders on alternative solutions to the “carbon” problem at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. The brief was to be one of three “firestarters” – a bit of a dangerous one if you ask...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 27, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy
Having just got back to the hotel at some unseemly hour (at least according to my body clock) from the first full day of meetings at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, I’m trying my best to be disciplined and write some of my impressions up. As...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 26, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy
I’m sitting here at Dulles Airport waiting for my flight to Zurich and the annual World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos, so I thought I’d dash off a quick blog. If you’re on the ball, you will realize that by arriving tomorrow, I will be missing...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 24, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy
This week I’m heading out to the World Economic Forum jamboree in Davos, Switzerland. I’d like to play this cool – as if rubbing shoulders with politicians, business leaders and celebs is something I do all the time. But the reality is that this is...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 18, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Recommended
To accompany the review just posted of Felice Frankel and George Whitesides’ book “No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale” the authors kindly allowed me to post this series of excerpts. What I wanted to capture here was the synergy between the...
