Apologies for the lack of Brain Parades lately. I allowed myself to fall behind before I went away to Spain and Rosie has been buried under work with school. I’m currently working on compiling a dozen Brain Parades but it’s going to be at least another week before any of them are finnished.
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We asked Mike Treder and Patrick Lin, two nanoethicists the following question:
Do you think the global economy and already existing regulatory structures will be able to adapt to the impact of nanotechnology without large-scale negative disruptions?
This is part of our nanotechnology series, more of which can be found by clicking through to the post itself.

We ask the question: Much of what has been written about nanotech revolves around fairly advanced/far future scenarios. What however do you thing are going to be some of the impacts and applications over the next few years?

Memetherapy asks the question: MT: In the sixties we had a vision of computers, best summed up by Hal 9000, that wasn’t realized. The reality turned out to be much different. Are we currently engaged in a similar misimagination with respect to the future of nanotech?

We kick off this week with a series of brain parades on nanotechnology, it’s risks and possible rewards.

Putting aside grey goo style scenarios for a moment, do you think there are other existential risks/safety concerns that we should be worrying about with respect to nanotechnology?

Just in case you thought I’ve turned into a completely silly blogger I’ve got a brainy and serious Brain Parade for you:

We seem to be awash in technological/scientific issues that raise serious ethical questions nowadays. Of these which concern/interest you the most?