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| Ognjen Strpic |
 Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:17 am |
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Hi, all
Referring to the previous thread, I sincerely hope sci.nanotech isn't
dead. In that vein, I'd like to ask for you help: I'm a
science/philosophy editor and am considering publishing (in Croatian
translation) a book on nanoscience and technology, aimed at lay reader,
which would ideally avoid oversimplification often found in popular
science genre, and give a thustworthy account on current state of
nanosci/tech.
A reader which I have in mind is an educated person, a specialist in
_some other_ field, who reads science journals and professional
literature, but isn't expert in a particular field that's being covered.
I'd like to focus on what makes nanosci/tech fundamentally new and why it
matters in a social sense. I'd be also interested to read some "meta"
discussion on development of nanoscience and this shift from, say,
visionary field to specific, albeit multidisciplinary, hard science and
tangible technology.
I have recently considered Nanotechnology. A gentle introduction to the
big idea (Ratner, M., D. Ratner, Prentice Hall, 2002), but I keep getting
a feeling that it's too dryly written and rather lacking in arguments,
although it may be interesting to a business-related reader. Could you
recommend something better than that, something that can inspire
further and more specialized reading, and gives a sound overall picture
of hows and whys of nano. Hope this makes sense.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Ognjen Strpic
Jesenski i Turk
Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Oliver 'Ojo' Bedford |
| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:14 am |
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Ognjen Strpic <ostrpic@jesenski-turk.hr> writes:
Quote: I'd like to focus on what makes nanosci/tech fundamentally new and why it
matters in a social sense. I'd be also interested to read some "meta"
discussion on development of nanoscience and this shift from, say,
visionary field to specific, albeit multidisciplinary, hard science and
tangible technology.
I cannot give you a specific recommendation on a book, but
I think most information can be gathered from internet-sources
(e.g. the Greenpeace report
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?CFID=190973&CFTOKEN=43323225&ucidparam=20030721113521
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the study by the Economic and Social Research
Council http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/downloaddocs/nanotechnology.pdf,
older studies from the National Science Fondation, the german website
www.nanonet.de etc.).
Much information about european research in nanotechnology and
also about the social impacts can be found at the website of the
EC: http://www.cordis.lu/nanotechnology/ Most of the ongoing debate
is published in their print-publication "CORDIS focus" (e.g. Issue 224:
"Nanotechnology: opportunity or threat?"), which is available free of
charge.
HTH,
Oliver |
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