NSEC/Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU

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NSEC/Center for Nanotechnology in Society at
ASU (NSEC 0531194) David H. Guston (ASU), PI
Strategic Vision Anticipatory Governance
Thematic Research Cluster 1 Equity, Equality,
and Responsibility Will nanotechnologies
increase or decrease inequalities? Can we do
anything now to change the direction of the
arrow? The TRC1 team is tracking the
consequences of nanotechnologies for different
social groups in both developed and developing
countries. Later stages of their research will
experiment with interventions designed to
counteract various nano-divides. The second
volume of the Yearbook of Nanotechnology in
Society on The Challenge Equity and Equality is
forthcoming.
Competent social scientists should work
hand-in-hand with natural scientists, so that
problems may be solved as they arise, and so that
many of them may not arise in the first
instance. -- Detlev Bronk
Three Capacities (research practice)
Thematic Research Cluster 2 Human Identity,
Enhancement and Biology The TRC 2 team completed
the Centers first end-to-end assessment of
nanotechnologies and the brain, drawing on the
array of the Centers research activities
including the NCTF, a national survey, and
bibliometric research to demonstrate that there
are a variety of research areas and issues active
now that deserve social and ethical attention.
The third volume of the Yearbook of
Nanotechnology in Society on Nano, the Brain and
the Future is forthcoming.
InnocationSpace NanoFutures Scenario
Development Future of Medical Diagnostics
Foresight Because all governance requires some
disposition regarding the future
National Citizens Technology Forum NanoDays Scien
ce Café NISE Net Forums
Thematic Research Cluster 2 (renewal) Nano and
the City Today the NEMUE (Nano-Enhanced
Materials and the Urban Environment) Image
Database consists of approximately 200 images.
While originally just the web addresses were
collected, the database is under transition and
in the future will be a publicly accessible,
searchable database.  In the finished database
each image will be accompanied by a brief text
description explaining what makes it 'nano', the
original webpage address, and tags that will make
the images easily searchable. The images range
from current-day applications of nanotechnology
through to future visions of a nano-enhanced
urban environment.
Engagement Because public engagement is crucial
normatively, strategically and even pragmatically
Socio-Technical Integration Research DC Summer
Session Undergraduate Learning Community
Integration Because scientists know things the
rest of us dont, and dont know things the rest
of us do