Dialogue of the Defra
by Jack Stilgoe
Four of our People's Inquiry members and I went to Defra yesterday on the way home from work to chat about nanotechnology. All well and good and friendly doing public engagement. But it's a lot to ask people to head into a civil service corner office to chat to people all of whose waking hours are spent in the discomfort of nanotechnology policy. They played a blinder. The discussion was fascinating, and if it has no purchase on the emerging shape of nano, I will be interested to know why.
Who knows, in a week or so, we might even see David Miliblog pick up on nano as he explores his new department. Watch this space.