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• Visionary French view of nanotechnology online

  Now we can all explore a French version of the Powers of Ten, produced as part of a nanoechnology exhibit by the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie museum in Paris, brought to our attention by Foresight Senior Associate Gina Miller. Topics covered include Read more
  Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 4:38 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, European Nanotechnology

• Competing nanotechnology control frameworks

  We’ve written here before about the Environmental Defense/DuPont effort to create a framework to deal with nanotechnology environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks. Now NRDC has issued its own report and framework. An excerpt from the report: The Read more
  Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:38 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• 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

• Artists take on nanotechnology

  A new art movement called NanoArt has been launched, the founder of which, Cris Orfescu, “considers NanoArt to be a more appealing and effective way to communicate with the general public and to inform people about the new technologies of the 21st Century.” Read more
  Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 5:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Public participation, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• 7th graders to clean ocean with nanotechnology

  The winners of this year’s Lego engineering contest were inspired by nanotechnology concepts to design a robot to clean plastic from the ocean: For the competition, the students had to prepare a presentation on this year’s theme — nanotechnology, Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Robotics/AI, Nanotechnology, Biosphere, Nanotech, Nano, Foresight Kudos

• 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

• Open source security for nanotechnology

  In the long term, we’ll need effective security techniques for advanced nanotechnology-based systems. This will take a while to figure out, so come help us do it at an upcoming open source conference, Penguicon: Open Source-style Security for the Whole Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:04 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Public Involvement, Open Source, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotechnology, Meetings & Conferences, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare, Security, Nanosurveillance, Openness/Privacy, Military nanotechnology, Foresight News

• 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

• Singapore exports nanotechnology learning tools

  Now, kids around the world can benefit from the nanoeducational prowess of Singapore. (Or at least rich kids can.) The ever-vigilant website Nanowerk brings word of three Nano-Bio educational kits available for ordering from Singapore. They’re perhaps Read more
  Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 6:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bionanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology risk framework: your input requested

  Environmental Defense and DuPont are pleased to announce the public release of a DRAFT version of their Nano Risk Framework — a framework for the responsible development, production, use and disposal of nanoscale materials. They’d appreciate your feedback Read more
  Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Roadmaps, Environment, Health, and Safety, Public participation, Public Involvement, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano