by Andrew Maynard | Dec 23, 2014 | Technology Innovation
How do you creatively explore the challenges and opportunities of developing new technologies responsibly? This past summer, the University of Michigan Risk Science Center partnered with the V2_ Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam to just this. And the result?...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 2, 2014 | Technology Innovation
How do we chart a path forward toward the effective and responsible development and use of new technologies? For the next two years, the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies will be tackling this and other questions as it develops ways of...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 8, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Policy
I must confess to being rather saddened this morning to read Roger Highfield’s New Scientist blog on the state of nanotechnology in the UK. Hot on the heels of reports that the company Nanoco is threatening to leave Britain for more fertile grounds, it left me...
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 | Sep 15, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Recommended, Technology Innovation
You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley? Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted –...