Nanotech funding . . . and caution?
Investors love nanotech, apparently. This was after the U. S. government earmarked $3.7 billion dollars for research over the next four years back in December.
The U. S. is big. In contrast, Singapore has devoted $3 million to help develop nanotech there.
But with all this funding, where are the results? Presently just mundane. Never-the-less, people want to advise additional regulations over Nanotech and be concerned with environmental and health risks.
This concern over environmental and health risks from nanotech, as well as the sort of regulations that could help. Where is this in the public consciousness?
You see, when people spend too much time campaigning or focusing on what is, or bitter about what happened, they don’t open themselves up to what might be. The future impact of nanotech is something that might be.
Fortunately, Prince Charles emphasizes the sort of balance that is needed. And yet, it is quite clear that it is easy to spin things any which way, and sometimes that happens to royalty too as apparently, due to past statements, anything he says in terms of caution will now fuel a sense that he is anti-science.