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• Philosopher confused by longevity, nanotechnology

  The May/June Technology Review (free reg. req’d) features an essay by philosopher Roger Scruton attempting to examine the ethical issues of highly advanced technologies. While the focus is on biotech, nanotech is hinted at: …why cannot machines Read more
  Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 6:44 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Speculative Fiction

• Nanotechnology will read smell records

  Keith Powers brings to our attention a claim that the German government has started collecting the chemical profiles of individuals, to be used for political purposes. From The Register in the UK: German police are compiling a Stasi-style “scent bank” Read more
  Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:42 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, Security, Nanosurveillance, Openness/Privacy

• Nanotechnology for drug detection

  I tell audiences that the day is coming when nanotechnology will be able to tell what they ate or smoked. That day is coming closer, according to Nanowerk News: To this day, fingerprints are just the thing when a perpetrator needs to be arrested or a person Read more
  Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 8:00 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanosurveillance

• Participatory nanotechnology ethics: Join right in

  Nanowerk reports on a new nanotechnology ethics database at IIT: NanoEthicsBank. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is their experiment with participatory tagging: In conjunction with the fixed subject terms used in the NanoEthicsBank, we are also developing Read more
  Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:35 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology or not: Iron seeding of ocean seems premature at best

  Regular readers of Nanodot know that we often disagree with ETC Group — but not always. They have issued a press release condemning a plan by a private firm to seed the ocean with iron particles in an effort to fight global warming. An excerpt: As worrying, Read more
  Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, International organizations, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Environmental groups dispute about nanotechnology

  We mentioned earlier a request for comment on a proposed Nano Risk Framework for approaching nanotechnology materials safety organized by Environmental Defense and DuPont. Now a different group of organizations has come out against that framework. Their statement Read more
  Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 7:48 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology patent problems blamed on unionization

  Small Times reports on a meeting held in Oregon among a wide variety of nanotechnology-based business participants, at which many commercialization challenges were discussed. One was difficulties encountered with the U.S. Patent office: Start-ups expressed Read more
  Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 4:47 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanobusiness, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Economics, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity, Nanojobs

• Nanotechnology: People hear what they want to hear

  A recent study by Yale Law School on how people’s views on nanotechnology change when they learn more information found that people seem to use whatever they are told to reinforce what they expect to hear. See the graph and analysis on this page: There Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:06 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Your chance to influence nanotechnology policy

  If you’re a Foresight member, you’re already helping improve nanotechnology policy, but here’s another way: apply to participate in the upcoming online course Debating Science and The Nanotechnology Debate. In the syllabus (pdf), the actual Read more
  Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 5:26 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Webcast: Nanotechnology for health care in developing countries

  The busy Project for Emerging Nanotechnologies over at the Wilson Center is having another meeting-plus-webcast, this time on February 27, noon Eastern time, on the topic of “Using Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care in Developing Countries”: Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:07 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Ethics, Nanotechnology, Meetings & Conferences, Developing world, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine