No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing counteracted. The next stage of evolution or a nightmare we can never wake up from? Jim Thomas on ‘converging technology’.
… companies and the NSF under a single vision. As Roco emphasises, the logic of NBIC … But who gets to be master of the universe? Visions of the future The US government’s NBIC …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
… nanotechnlogies and the molecular vision of life will undermine more holistic … NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Nano Vision ‘ Nanotechnologies have the potential … that break down more easily in nature. Nano-visionaries such as Eric Drexler foresee a day …
The public must play a significant role in any decisions made about the development of the new technology. By Tom Wakeford
… Pradesh to choose between three contrasting ‘visions’ for the future of food and farming in … from ‘witnesses’ in support of each vision. While the information provided was …
In the 1930s US dentist Weston Price travelled the world to study the diets of ‘primitive’ peoples. He found a startling lack of disease and proof that a system of environmentally-friendly local food production is the best way to ensure human health.
… infections, allergies, anaemia, asthma, poor vision, lack of co-ordination, fatigue and …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… health problems, including impaired vision, still births, congenital malformations …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… Party of the East’ because of its radical vision of a self-sustainable Ladakh and its …