by Andrew Maynard | Jan 18, 2010 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology
How do you write a book about something few people have heard off, and less seem interested in? The answer, it seems, is to write about something else. Felice Frankel and George Whitesides have clearly taken this lesson to heart. Judged by the cover alone, their new...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 7, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Engagement, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Policy
Back in February of 2009, the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee launched an inquiry into the use of nanotechnology in food products and the food industry. Chaired by Lord Krebs (the son of Hans Adolf Krebs – best known for describing the...
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 Guest | Dec 18, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Policy, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Jim Thomas, ETC Group A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series For a fresh perspective on how to do technology governance consider starting somewhere else. I suggest York Castle in Northern England – a stark stone tower...
by Guest | Dec 17, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Synthetic Biology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, and the Center for Food Safety A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series Andrew asked us to write about “how technological innovation should contribute to life in...
by Guest | Dec 17, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Nanotechnology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Richard Worthington, Loka Institute A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series My first scholarly engagement with environmental politics was an honor’s thesis written while I was an undergraduate at Berkeley in the early 1970s. ...
