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Social and political implications of nanotechnology. How it might improve the human condition, or create horrifying weapons of destruction.

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The Foresight Institute

Foresight's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition - it focuses on nanotechnology and "systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions".
http://www.foresight.org

Nanotechnology Without Genies

Critique of the belief system associated with nanotechnology.
http://www.geniebusters.org/

Nanotechnology: The Coming Molecular Revolution

Student report on the potential for nanotechnology from a management point of view.
http://nanotech.about.com/science/nanotech/library/weekly/aa122400a.htm

Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Report from an interdisplinary workshop held at the National Science Foundation (U.S.), covering a range of topics in the area of ethical, legal, social, cultural, medical, political, and environmental implications.
http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/NSET.Societal.Implications/

Nanosocialism

Seminal paper which argues that nanotechnology projections need to be tempered by realism about what it will be used for in the hands of corporations and governments - but that nanotechnology also offers enormous opportunities for the liberation of humani
http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/nanosoc.htm

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

CRN investigates the societal implications, long-range risks, and effective use of nanotechnology, and educates those who will influence its use, or be affected by it.
http://crnano.org/

Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology

A starting point for exploring ethical, social, and environmental implications of nanotechnology.
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/nanotechnology/

University of South Carolina NanoScience and Technology Studies

Aims to provide scholarship and commentary on issues of nanotechnology to raise ethical, legal, political and societal issues, risks and benefits, and public and private sector approaches on its development.
http://www.cla.sc.edu/cpecs/nirt/
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