by Andrew Maynard | Feb 16, 2012 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
For the past few months, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has been working on identifying some of the most significant trends in technology innovation. Published yesterday by WEF, these represent ten areas that we as a council...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 9, 2010 | Synthetic Biology
The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer...
by Andrew Maynard | May 26, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Future, Policy, Risk, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
Last week’s announcement from the J. Craig Venter Institute that scientists had created the first-ever synthetic cell was a profoundly significant point in human history, and marked a turning point in our quest to control the natural world. But the ability to...
by Hilary Sutcliffe | May 25, 2010 | Ethics, Guest Post, Oversight, Synthetic Biology
A guest blog by Hilary Sutcliffe, Director of MATTER, a UK think tank which explores how new technologies can work for us all. The other day, I wrote a piece on the implications of synthetic biology where I suggested that we “need to place discussions on a...
by Andrew Maynard | May 22, 2010 | Synthetic Biology
Typical. One of the most anticipated technological breakthroughs in years hits the streets, and I’m completely off the web – holed up in an Italian hotel with no internet and no phone. I’m talking of course about J. Craig Venter’s team’s...
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...
