Tiny Technology, Enormous Implications

The authors argue that federal nanotechnology regulation has been approached in a reactive and piecemeal fashion to date. The patchwork of organizational resources, organizational structures, regulatory strategies, and regulations are mismatched, and are not optimal for the public good's protection and promotion. The authors focus on the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), designed for nanoscale science and technology promotion to benefit, as far as possible, U.S. citizens in particular and humanity in general. The NNI could be used to foster both social and technological progress through prospective consideration of broad societal effects during regulatory and policy design stages of the potentially transformative nanotechnology. The authors discuss issues involved in nanotechnology's social context.

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• Authors:
  • Sandler, Ronald
  • Bosso, Christopher J
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 28-30
• Serial:
  • Issues in Science and Technology
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: University of Texas at Dallas
  • ISSN: 0748-5492
  • Serial URL: http://www.issues.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advocacy groups; Benefits; Federal government; Nanostructured materials; Policy, legislation and regulation; Promotion; Social benefits; Social factors; Technology
• Identifier Terms: National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Uncontrolled Terms: Contextual conditions; Society; Support (Advocate)
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055395
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 2007 1:00PM