Today on Nanotech-Now, I discuss what it would take to make the abstract discussions about “nanoethics” as a discipline, sub-discipline, or whatever it is into a meaningful discussion about a future where nanotechnologies impact our world and do so in a way that we have anticipated ethical issues that actually will come to pass, and when they do, we are prepared for them because ethicists, policy-makers, scientists and other interested stakeholders have engaged, not in theoretical debate about whether nanoethics is a field or discipline, but about what kind of nanotechological future we want.

To read more, go to my column at Nanotech-Now.com. This column is sponsored by The American Journal of Bioethics.

Summer Johnson, PhD