This month’s column from the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech Now, and AJOB Collaboration posted on Friday last week discusses the “rational” development of new technologies and the balance between a technology with great promise and unknown risk.
Tom Powers, Director of the Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program at the University of Delaware concludes that every discipline has a unique point of view and that “you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” Especially not with players as diverse as engineers, material scientists, philosophers, policy makers, and more.
As if we didn’t know that already, Tom!
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Summer Johnson, PhD