Entries tagged with: Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

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Nanobama

Mike Treder, director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, has offered up an entry to the "Citizen's Briefing Book" section of Obama's Change.org website. In "Advanced Nanotechnology - What, When, Why" Mike argues that an investment in the development of...

Posted on January 15, 2009 12:51 PM

Responsible Nanotechnology

(The following is an essay I wrote for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology's December 2007 newsletter.) How soon could molecular manufacturing (MM) arrive? It's an important question, and one that the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology takes seriously. In our recently...

Posted on December 28, 2007 6:34 PM

Nanoscenarios

The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology today published eight scenarios exploring differing drivers for the advent of molecular manufacturing. This was the "virtual workshop" series I led earlier this year, and the scenarios reflect the work of over 50 people across...

Posted on December 11, 2007 12:15 PM

Monday Topsight, October 22, 2007

Because technically it was still Monday when I started this. • Oooh, Spooooky! What's more appropriate for Hallowe'en than Spooky Technology? Except this isn't ghosts and goblins (and Count Floyd!), it's research into communication, sensing and perhaps even weapons technologies...

Posted on October 22, 2007 11:48 PM

CRN Leadership Team Expands

Press Release The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) is adding two new members to its leadership team. Jamais Cascio will become CRN’s Director of Impacts Analysis, and Jessica Margolin will take on the role of Director of Research Communities, effective...

Posted on September 24, 2007 8:08 PM

Wednesday Topsight, January 24, 2007

Let's see, lots of apocaphilia lately... • Five Minutes to Midnight: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a well-known icon, shown here: the ticking clock, counting down to midnight. Throughout the Cold War, as tensions between the superpowers rose...

Posted on January 24, 2007 9:21 PM

The Virtual Workshop (Or, How To Run A Scenario Event In Your Pajamas With Nobody the Wiser)

This past weekend, I ran a virtual scenario workshop for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. All 15 or so of the attendees participated solely by voice and Internet connection, for nearly eight hours over two days. I had never been...

Posted on January 22, 2007 5:29 PM

Nano-Health, Nano-War

Lots of nano-news over the past week or two -- and most of it good! Clean Bill of Health: One of the big questions about nanomaterials arising in recent months concerns the toxicity of nanoparticles, particularly carbon nanotubes. Since carbon...

Posted on December 11, 2006 3:52 PM

New Position

I'm pleased to announce that the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology has asked me to serve as their Global Futures Strategist, and I have accepted. This is a volunteer position, so I'll still be doing my various other projects as before,...

Posted on October 4, 2006 3:54 PM

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