The Hay on Wye literature festival has long attracted literary giants from around the world to an otherwise sleepy Welsh town in the Black Mountains. This years festival is no exception, attracting the likes of Goldie Hawn, Elvis Costello, Simon Singh, Bob Geldof and Richard Jones, discussing one of our personal favourites, Soft Machines.
These days it is a toss up whether the bewhiskered anti nanoscience demonstrators will be ecologists or Drexlerites.