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  • Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture

    Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” or Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”, and you get a glimpse into how the hacker culture that emerged at the tail end of the twentieth century revolutionized the digital world.  Will a confluence of emerging technologies—including information tech, biotech, and nanotech—lead to a similar revolution ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on June 13, 2008
  • 2007 - A personal nanotechnology retrospective

    It’s been a long slog, but the end of 2007 is in sight.  A year of endless meetings, papers by the bunch, and more frequent flyer miles than any sane person should rack up (got to get that Carbon footprint under control). But did this all add up to progress on the safe nano front?  Here’s my personal and admittedly subjective round-up of ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on December 28, 2007