by Andrew Maynard | Oct 11, 2018 | Civic Science, Emerging Technology, Films from the Future, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Future, Nanotechnology, Responsible Innovation
Each week between now and November 15th (publication day!) I’ll be posting excerpts from Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies This week, it’s chapter ten, and the movie The Man in the White Suit. The Man in the White Suit is a 1951...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 20, 2014 | Nanotechnology
Why are materials important? How do they limit what we can achieve? And what can we do to change this? (Check out the videos below). Advanced Materials Materials and how we use them are inextricably linked to the development of human society. Yet amazing as historic...
by Andrew Maynard | May 22, 2012 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
A few weeks ago I was asked to give a “TED style talk” on nanotechnology for the University of Michigan Environmental Health Sciences department 125th anniversary. What they got was a short talk on “thinking small”: The other talks in the...