The Nanodialogues
Four experiments in upstream public engagement
Nanotechnology - the science of small things - promises to be one of the defining technologies of the 21st Century. But what will it mean for society and the environment? And how can public engagement in deciding the direction of research be moved 'upstream'?
Dialogue of the Defra
at 12:00pm on Friday, 26th May 2006Four 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.
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