by Andrew Maynard | Jun 13, 2008 | Civic Science, Engagement, Synthetic Biology
Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” or Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”, and you get a glimpse into how the hacker culture that emerged at the tail end of the twentieth century revolutionized the digital world. Will a confluence of emerging...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 28, 2008 | Communication, Engagement, Nanotechnology, Oversight
The small American town of Sunnyville is a town in crisis. Against a backdrop of job losses that have decimated the local community, citizens are struggling to decide whether to welcome two major nanotech-enabled industries into the town, or whether to reject them...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 6, 2008 | Engagement, Synthetic Biology
Can current approaches to doing science sustain us over the next one hundred years? An increasing reliance on technological fixes to global challenges — including nanotechnology — demands a radical rethink of how we use science in the service of society. Over the...
