Overview
- 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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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Presenting Futures
Editors: Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, Jameson M. Wetmore
Series Title: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8416-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8415-7Published: 26 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7875-9Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8416-4Published: 22 May 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 308
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Nanotechnology, Social Sciences, general, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, R & D/Technology Policy, Popular Science, general