by Andrew Maynard | Jan 12, 2011 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology
As I report on the Risk Science Blog, the latest iteration of the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report has dropped “Nanoparticle Toxicity” as an emerging and significant risk. Instead, the far more generic “Threats from New Technologies”...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 30, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Technology Innovation
In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at...
by Andrew Maynard | May 31, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy, Technology Innovation
The global financial crisis of 2008-09 laid bare the inadequacies of global systems in an increasingly interdependent world, and highlighted the need to rethink the “architecture of global cooperation” – the idea at the core of the World Economic Forum Global...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 31, 2010 | Policy, Recommended
Well, I’ve survived my first “Davos” and lived to tell the tale. I feel I should write about how profoundly important and influential these meetings are (and without a doubt, they are). But it’s two o’clock in the morning, and I wanted...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 27, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Policy
Having just got back to the hotel at some unseemly hour (at least according to my body clock) from the first full day of meetings at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, I’m trying my best to be disciplined and write some of my impressions up. As...
