Thu, May 3rd, 2007
No, not in the way you think, you dirty minded person.
I received some great news yesterday. I got a contract to co-edit the book on the social and environmental impacts of nanotechnology that I proposed back in December, titled Size Matters: Nanotechnology, Social Change, and the Environment. We’ll be publishing with Rowman and Littlefield, an […]
Fri, Aug 4th, 2006
Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been working on a paper about the social consequences of nanotechnology. Though my focus is on how nanotechnology will impact food and agriculture at global and local levels, thinking about nanotechnology is like taking a step into a sci-fi future, except that this particular sci-fi future actually has some […]
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