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 | Dec 9, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Future, Rethinking Science & Technology
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...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 7, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
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...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 22, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Policy
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...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 21, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Policy
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...