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...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 25, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Public Health, Risk, Technology Innovation
The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up! But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled? The Fall 2010...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 8, 2010 | Nanotechnology
Friends of the Earth (FoE) do not like nanoparticle-based sunscreens. This has been evident for some years – back in 2006 the organization published the report Nanomaterials, Sunscreens and Cosmetics: Small Ingredients, Big Risks, and every year since then they...
by Andrew Maynard | May 28, 2010 | Nanotechnology, Policy
Catching up with my email after a long day off the net, I see that a group of Non Government Organizations (NGOs) are urging EPA not to allow the use of an alleged nanotechnology-based dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico. The letter from thirteen organizations was...
by Guest | Dec 17, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Synthetic Biology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, and the Center for Food Safety A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series Andrew asked us to write about “how technological innovation should contribute to life in...
