by Andrew Maynard | Mar 7, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Recommended
A lot of things keep me up at night – everything from the trivial (“did I remember to brush my teeth?”) to the to the profound (“does it matter?” ). But recently, I’ve been plagued more than usual in the wee small hours by the...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 31, 2010 | Policy, Recommended
Well, I’ve survived my first “Davos” and lived to tell the tale. I feel I should write about how profoundly important and influential these meetings are (and without a doubt, they are). But it’s two o’clock in the morning, and I wanted...
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...
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 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 | Nov 19, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Recommended
For the next three days I will be participating in and blogging from the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. If last year’s summit – described as the “World’s largest brainstorming” – is anything to go by,...
