by Andrew Maynard | Nov 20, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Engagement
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...
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,...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 30, 2009 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Recommended
As scientists, how we love to rail against the incompetence of the media. As self-proclaimed keepers of the truth, we decry – usually rather vocally – the misinterpretation and misuse of our precious studies. And as we commiserate together on the...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 23, 2009 | Emerging Technology
Here’s something I’ve been chewing over for the past few weeks: How do you capture succinctly the idea of developing innovative new approaches to identifying, assessing, managing and otherwise dealing with risks to human health? What I’ve ended up...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 15, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Rethinking Science & Technology
Part 8 of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Much to my embarrassment, I’ve just realized that it was over four months ago that I wrote the previous blog in this series – a series that was supposed to evolve over just a few weeks! Most...
