Nothing to do with Batman vs the Queen, but the Chronicle of Higher Education puts its finger on the real issue in an overview of the dark side of nanotechnology
David Rejeski, director of the foresight and governance project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, says that the public is “going to get much more information from films and television shows and games than they ever will from a National Academy study.
Here in Europe we have already been through that with GMOs, where little of the debate was to do with science, and much with fear of technology. While the recommendations of the recent Royal Society study are sensible enough, its impact is minimal compared to Spiderman 2.