Nanotechnology and ‘upstream’ public engagement

1/24/2007

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Nanotechnology and ‘upstream’ public engagement

Is Nanotechnology the next GM?

The Issue for Governance

A Challenge for Public Engagement

Phase 1: Public understanding of science .(PUS)

Engaging Publics Upstream

Public Focus Groups

The Methodology

‘We haven’t had a say again’

Perceptions of nanotechnology

‘I actually have no idea what they’re really doing’

Developing a nano-imagination

Responses to Visions

‘I just am a bit cynical’

‘Nanotechnology’s the new God’

‘This is the vision of the robotic environment’

The consolidation of concern

‘I wouldn’t touch it now with a barge pole’

Factors likely to underpin public concern

‘There are some scary dark futures’

‘It makes the rich richer and the poor poorer’

‘Why can’t we slow it down’

‘It must be an absolute Godsend to the terrorists’

Reflecting on public concern

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