Two alternative views of nanotech popped up on our radar today. First up was Cientificas Tim Harper kicking off CNBC Asias nanotech week in conjunction with the World NanoEconomic Congress. “What nanotech related changes will consumers see in the next five years? They will see a whole lot of things being cheaper and smarter, but they won’t hear consumers calling it nanotech.”
An alternative viewpoint popped up on the scanners minutes later (and we wonder what attracts normally staid members of the legal profession to molecular nanotechnology like moths to a candle, there must be more lawyers than scientists at Foresight conventions these days) with a view of what a (molecular) nanotechnology economy may look like.
Staying with the legal theme, attendees of the Singapore World NanoEconomic Congress will be pleased to note that there is no pre conference workshop on the importance of intellectual property, a tradition that seems to have crept into many nanotech events. We presumed that anyone attending would have that one figured out already.