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• Russia: $1 billion from oil into nanotechnology

  BusinessWeek.com reports that nanotechnology is the next big thing in Russia: Russia will pour over $1 billion into equipment for nanotechnology research over the next three years as it uses massive oil and gas export earnings to diversify an economy now heavily Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:47 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 2 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Opinion, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare, European Nanotechnology, Military nanotechnology

• Facing up to military nanotechnology

  A new book by German physicist Jürgen Altmann of Dortmund University looks at Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control (Routledge, 2006). Both near-term and long-term applications are examined. From the abstract: NT applications Read more
  Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:24 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Robotics/AI, Molecular Nanotechnology, Artificial Molecular Machines, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare, Security, Nanosurveillance, Openness/Privacy, Space, Military nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology surveillance & privacy: an interview

  Earth & Sky interviewed yours truly on the topic of nanotechnology surveillance and nanoprivacy. It looks as though there are both a transcript and a couple of podcasts (1, 2). Excerpts: Nanotechnology will produce new sensors that can analyze chemical Read more
  Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 2:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 2 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Nanosurveillance, Openness/Privacy

• National security implications of long-term nanotechnology

  The U.S. Navy’s Thomas Vandermolen looks at defense aspects of advanced nanotech in a footnoted paper over at Nanotechnology Now. He argues against a do-nothing strategy: Given MNT’s tremendous potential for both peaceful and violent applications, Read more
  Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 6:08 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Opinion, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare

• South Korea to assist North Korea on nanotechnology

  From The Chosun Ilbo we learn of a new collaborative effort on nanotechnology between South Korea and…North Korea: South and North Korean scholars are holding a conference on nanotechnology in the North’s Mt. Kumgang resort. For three days from Read more
  Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:42 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanotechnology Politics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare

• Church of Scotland wants nanotechnology to respect certain limits drawn from…the arts?

  Rocky Rawstern of Nanotechnology Now brings our attention to an article in The Scotsman on the views of Dr. Donald Bruce, head of the Church of Scotland’s Society, Religion and Technology Project. While there is much that we would agree with in Dr. Bruce’s Read more
  Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 4:41 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology

• Bill Joy suggests insurance as risk reduction mechanism for nanotechnology

  In an essay on KurzweilAI.net reprinted from New Scientist, Bill Joy — whose Wired essay titled Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us touched off a big controversy — suggests insurance as a mechanism to reduce risk from powerful technologies including nanotech: Read more
  Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:32 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 5 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Ethics, Opinion, Abuse of Advanced Technology