Welcome to the 2020 Science Archive
2020 Science started life in 2007 as a nanotechnology blog written by Andrew Maynard on SafeNano. In the following years it developed into a personal blog addressing emerging technologies, responsible innovation, risk, science communication, and the intersection between science and society more generally.
Andrew made he decision to wind the blog down in 2019 as his focus and writing developed in new directions. This archive contains most of the original posts (there have been occasional clean-ups of content). For more recent articles etc. please visit andrewmaynard.net. And thanks for visiting!
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Science and Technology Innovation – looking to the future
The final part of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Nine months ago, I embarked on an ambitious project to flesh out the ideas presented in a seminar given at the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. The...
Completing the circle: Coupling science & technology outputs to inputs
Part 9 of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Writing about completing the circle of science and technology policy at the start of the Copenhagen climate summit seems particularly fitting. Although the climate change context was far...
Nanotechnology in 24 seconds/7 words, courtesy of Wade Adams and the Ig Nobels
How do you describe nanotechnology in 24 seconds, or even in 7 words? Tough challenge, but Professor Wade Adams, Director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology at Rice University rose to it with aplomb at this year's Ig Nobel...
Researchers are real people too – thoughts on interviewing scientists
Update July 2015 -Andréia's original blog post isn't accessible anymore sadly (I'm still looking for a link to an archived version). Andréia Azevedo Soares has just posted an excellent blog on how to interview scientists over at YS Journal - an on-line journal...
What’s technology innovation got to do with it? Final thoughts on the Summit on the Global Agenda
As this weekend's Summit on the Global Agenda came to a close this morning, I was left with an abiding impression of a looming yet largely hidden potential crisis in global security and prosperity: A failure to develop and use technology innovation effectively in...
Serendipity at the Summit on the Global Agenda
Good brainstorms are oft anticipated and rarely encountered. So I tend to get a little excited when I find myself in one that stimulates rather than stultifies. Today at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda had more than it's fair share of...
From the Summit on the Global Agenda: Technology innovation as an enabler of social innovation
It's the end of day one at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda, and I'm sitting in my rather comfortable hotel room overlooking Palm Island, trying to pull my thoughts together. It was a day for meeting old friends, making new acquaintances, listening...
Rethinking the world – World Economic Forum style
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, we're in for an intense few days. The...
Tim Jones’ Exquisite Corpse of Science – an update
Back in July I wrote a short blog about Tim Jones' Exquisite Corpse of Science project - an innovative project to explore what people think about science and it's place in their lives and society, through the medium of drawing and film. Four months on, I though it...
Looking for the nanotechnology in your life? There’s an app for that!
Okay so it's more of a list of nanotech-enabled products than a lifestyle tool, but at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, we've just released an iPhone version of our surprisingly successful web-based nanotech Consumer Products Inventory. With findNano, it's a...