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Presenting Futures

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  1. Erik Fisher

    1. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  2. Cynthia Selin

    1. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  3. Jameson M. Wetmore

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  • Offers a lively and multifaceted view of social, ethical, and policy issues raised by nanotechnology
  • Includes multi-sectoral participation from academic, public, and private sectors
  • Captures contemporary discussions of the future of nanotechnology current in academic scholarship, government documents, corporate reports, and NGO press releases

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society (YNTS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVI
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  2. Nanotechnology: The Future Is Coming Sooner than You Think

    • Joseph Kennedy
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Workers’ Push to Democratize Nanotechnology

    • Guillermo Foladori, Noela Invernizzi
    Pages 23-36

  4. Thinking Longer Term about Technology

    • Christine Peterson
    Pages 37-47

  5. Constructive Technology Assessment and Socio-Technical Scenarios

    • Arie Rip, Haico te Kulve
    Pages 49-70

  6. Information and Imagination: How Lux Research Forecasts

    • Mark Bünger
    Pages 71-89

  7. Designing for the Future: Nanoscale Research Facilities

    • Ahmad Soueid
    Pages 91-108

  8. What Drives Public Acceptance of Nanotechnology?

    • Steven C. Currall, Eden B. King, Neal Lane, Juan Madera, Stacy Turner
    Pages 109-116

  9. Nanologue

    • Volker Türk
    Pages 117-122

  10. Anticipating the Futures of Nanotechnology: Visionary Images as Means of Communication

    • Andreas Lösch
    Pages 123-142

  11. Winners of Nano-Hazard Symbol Contest Announced atWorld Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya

    • ETC Group
    Pages 143-145

  12. Your Children, Their Children…

    • Agilent Technologies
    Pages 147-148

  13. Developing Plausible Nano-Enabled Products

    • Ira Bennett
    Pages 149-155

  14. Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense 2030 Workshop and Study

    • Margaret E. Kosal
    Pages 157-162

  15. Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow’s Society: A Case for Reflective Action Research in Flanders, Belgium

    • Lieve Goorden, Michiel van Oudheusden, Johan Evers, Marian Deblonde
    Pages 163-182

  16. Communications in the Age of Nanotechnology

    • Griffith A. Kundahl
    Pages 183-194

  17. How Can Business Respond to the Technical, Social, and Commercial Uncertainties of Nanotechnology?

    • Hilary Sutcliffe
    Pages 195-200

  18. Manufactured Nanoparticle Health and Safety Disclosure [Draft Report]

    • Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, Jameson M. Wetmore
    Pages 201-205

  19. A Framework for Responsible Nanotechnology

    • Scott Walsh, Terry Medley
    Pages 207-213

  20. Contemplating the Implications of a Nanotechnology “Revolution”

    • Georgia Miller
    Pages 215-225
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About this book

Welcome to the ?rst volume of the Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society! Nanotechnology, hailed as “the next industrial revolution” (NSTC 2000) and c- tiqued for being little more than “hype” (Berube 2006), is the site of a great deal of social and intellectual contest. With some ten billion dollars being spent worldwide on nanotechnology research and development annually and a market forecast of trillions of dollars in sales in the medium-term future (Lux Research 2006), nations and ?rms are pursuing nano-related goals with high levels of both effort and - pectations. Yet according to the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s web-based Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory, most of the more than 500 na- products on the market as of this writing are basic consumer items—cosmetics, clothing, athletic equipment and the like—with modest, incremental improvements on their non-nano counterparts. Nanotechnology is also the site of an increasing amount of scholarship dedicated to understanding the interactions between society and an emerging knowled- based technological endeavor. Searching the Web of Science indices in social s- ence and humanities for nanotech* and nanoparticle*, for example, yields 231 hits 1 since 1990, but 75 percent of these occur in 2004 through 2007. This scholarship attempts to fathom the implications of nanotechnologies for society, as well as the implications for nanotechnologies of society. Some of it is also engaged in dialogue with both the public and with nanotechnology researchers about the hope and the hype described above.

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It provides a unique compilation of a major stream of work within nanotechnology in society and its connections in US and W. Europe. It captures and explores many of the tensions surrounding this new enterprise of predicting technologies’ futures, while indicating some of the ways this process reproduces past challenges in technoscience and society. The collection includes pieces from an admirable range of ‘stakeholders’ in nanotechnologies’ futures: STS researchers from several countries and a number of institutions representing diverse views about nanotechnologies’ potentials for assessment, and a smaller number from science, NGOs, industry, and government. The collection brings together several key US policy documents, as well as scholarly texts, more informal reports, and personal statements—the array of formats is an interesting approach to considering the ‘future in the making’ that is the nano enterprise and its societal interactions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, Jameson M. Wetmore

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