For past 100 years—from the tail end of the industrial revolution, through the chemicals revolution and into the digital revolution—we have been passive observers of our effects on the planet. Over the next 100 years, we will need to take an active role in managing these effects if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic impacts on large numbers of the world’s population.

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“No Small Matter” – A connoisseur’s guide to delicate work

How do you write a book about something few people have heard of, and less seem interested in? The answer, it seems, is to write about something else.

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Dec 29, 2009 • Security > SciTech > Life > Innovation > Health > Vision > Futurism > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Ten Emerging Technology Trends of the Next Ten years

by Andrew Maynard

What can we expect as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century?  What are the emerging technology trends that are going to be hitting the headlines over the next ten years?

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Dec 25, 2009 • Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Scientist just wants to have fun – a compendium of mindless games for the holiday season!

by Andrew Maynard

Here’s some sciency fun for a long holiday weekend. Enjoy!

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Dec 9, 2009 • Security > Resilience > SciTech > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Science and Technology Innovation: Looking to the Future

by Andrew Maynard

How do we ensure that our dependency on science and technology works for us, rather than against us?

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Nov 23, 2009 • Security > Biosecurity > Eco-gov > Resilience > SciTech > Rights > Economic > Vision > Technoprogressivism > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

What’s technology innovation got to do with it?

by Andrew Maynard

Some thoughts about the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda…

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Nov 1, 2009 • Security > SciTech > Vision > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Do scientists encourage misleading media coverage?

by Andrew Maynard

If the science community is serious about good science reporting, it needs to get its own house in order before pointing too many fingers at others.

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Oct 16, 2009 • Security > SciTech > Life > Access > Vision > Technoprogressivism > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Riding the Wave: Rethinking Science & Technology Policy

by Andrew Maynard

We stand at a nexus of unimaginable technological potential, and unprecedented global challenges.  How we develop and use science and technology over the coming decades will determine the quality (and possibly even the quantity) of life for coming generations.

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Sep 12, 2009 • Security > SciTech > Life > Innovation > Contributors > Andrew Maynard

Living in a Post-Chemistry World

by Andrew Maynard

Regulators around the world are currently grappling with how to manage the possible risks associated with first generation nanotechnologies.  But increasingly sophisticated nanotechnology-based products are coming—will the old regulations still cover these emerging nanotechnologies, or is a re-think in how substances are regulated in order?

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