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Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have
developed for many years in a medical context. Such applications
have become increasingly advanced, in some cases modifying
fundamental brain function. Today, comparatively low-tech implants
are being increasingly employed in non-therapeutic contexts, with
applications ranging from the use of ICT implants for VIP entry
into nightclubs, automated payments for goods, access to secure
facilities and for those with a high risk of being kidnapped.
Commercialisation and growing potential of human ICT implants have
generated debate over the ethical, legal and social aspects of the
technology, its products and application. Despite stakeholders
calling for greater policy and legal certainty within this area,
gaps have already begun to emerge between the commercial reality of
human ICT implants and the current legal frameworks designed to
regulate these products. This book focuses on the latest
technological developments and on the legal, social and ethical
implications of the use and further application of these
technologies.
Our growing ability to manufacture materials at the atomic scale
will change our lives for the better, and tomorrow's nano-economy
will outperform today's information age. Or so its proponents
claim. Others maintain that a future dominated by commercial
incentives risks a toxicological nightmare to rival the sorry
global story of asbestos. This important volume is a timely
contribution to increasing international calls to regulate
nanotechnologies. By investigating the ways in which we could
regulate these advances, and what we are learning from regulating
existing technologies, such as biotechnologies and information
technologies, the book debates the roles of government, business
actors and the professions in protecting and enhancing the lives of
citizens. In placing particular emphasis on the lessons of earlier
technology advances, this book is unique in its broad consideration
of the ethical, legal and social issues entwined within the
development of the nanotechnology family. The multi-jurisdictional
and interdisciplinary nature of the book will appeal to
governments, academics, and civil societies across many parts of
the world, while also remaining accessible to informed readers with
an interest in nanotechnology and the policy and governance issues
associated with technology development and regulation.
Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have
developed for many years in a medical context. Such applications
have become increasingly advanced, in some cases modifying
fundamental brain function. Today, comparatively low-tech implants
are being increasingly employed in non-therapeutic contexts, with
applications ranging from the use of ICT implants for VIP entry
into nightclubs, automated payments for goods, access to secure
facilities and for those with a high risk of being kidnapped.
Commercialisation and growing potential of human ICT implants have
generated debate over the ethical, legal and social aspects of the
technology, its products and application. Despite stakeholders
calling for greater policy and legal certainty within this area,
gaps have already begun to emerge between the commercial reality of
human ICT implants and the current legal frameworks designed to
regulate these products. This book focuses on the latest
technological developments and on the legal, social and ethical
implications of the use and further application of these
technologies.
As scientists and technologists discover how to engineer matter at
the nanoscale in increasingly sophisticated ways, conventional
approaches to ensuring safe use are being brought into question.
Nanotechnologies are challenging traditional regulatory regimes;
but they are also prompting new thinking on developing and using
emerging technologies safely. In this Handbook, leading
international authors from industry, government, non-governmental
organisations and academia examine the complex and often
controversial regulatory challenges presented by nanotechnologies.
Across several disciplinary boundaries, they explore how the future
regulatory landscape may evolve. From the Europe Union to the
United States, workplaces to personal products, and statutory
instruments through to softer approaches, it is clear that
considerable vigilance will be needed in governing these powerful
and novel technologies. To succeed, society will need new thinking,
new partnerships and new mechanisms to balance the benefits of
these technologies against their possible downsides. Anything less
will prompt cries of illegitimacy and potentially compromise a
promising new realm of technology innovation.
Our growing ability to manufacture materials at the atomic scale
will change our lives for the better, and tomorrow's nano-economy
will outperform today's information age. Or so its proponents
claim. Others maintain that a future dominated by commercial
incentives risks a toxicological nightmare to rival the sorry
global story of asbestos. This important volume is a timely
contribution to increasing international calls to regulate
nanotechnologies. By investigating the ways in which we could
regulate these advances, and what we are learning from regulating
existing technologies, such as biotechnologies and information
technologies, the book debates the roles of government, business
actors and the professions in protecting and enhancing the lives of
citizens. In placing particular emphasis on the lessons of earlier
technology advances, this book is unique in its broad consideration
of the ethical, legal and social issues entwined within the
development of the nanotechnology family. The multi-jurisdictional
and interdisciplinary nature of the book will appeal to
governments, academics, and civil societies across many parts of
the world, while also remaining accessible to informed readers with
an interest in nanotechnology and the policy and governance issues
associated with technology development and regulation.
As scientists and technologists discover how to engineer matter at
the nanoscale in increasingly sophisticated ways, conventional
approaches to ensuring safe use are being brought into question.
Nanotechnologies are challenging traditional regulatory regimes;
but they are also prompting new thinking on developing and using
emerging technologies safely. In this Handbook, leading
international authors from industry, government, non-governmental
organisations and academia examine the complex and often
controversial regulatory challenges presented by nanotechnologies.
Across several disciplinary boundaries, they explore how the future
regulatory landscape may evolve. From the Europe Union to the
United States, workplaces to personal products, and statutory
instruments through to softer approaches, it is clear that
considerable vigilance will be needed in governing these powerful
and novel technologies. To succeed, society will need new thinking,
new partnerships and new mechanisms to balance the benefits of
these technologies against their possible downsides. Anything less
will prompt cries of illegitimacy and potentially compromise a
promising new realm of technology innovation.
The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging.
The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable
risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential
to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology.
The are, however, a number of tools that can now be utilized by
stakeholders to bridge the chasm that exists between the science
and innovation dimensions on the one hand, and the societal
dimensions on the other. This edited volume will draw together
leading researchers from the domains of law, philosophy, political
science, public administration and the natural sciences in order to
demonstrate how tools such as, for example, constructive technology
assessment, regulatory governance and societal scenarios, may be
employed by stakeholders to assist in successfully embedding new
technologies into society. This volume will focus primarily on the
embedding of two emergent and emerging technologies:
nanotechnologies and synthetic biology. Government, industry and
the epistemic community continue to struggle with how best to
balance the promised benefits of an emerging technology with
concerns about its potential impacts. There is a growing body of
literature that has examined these challenges from various
cultural, scientific and jurisdictional dimensions. There is,
however, much work that still needs to be done; this includes
articulating the successes and failures of attempts to the societal
embedding of technologies and their associated products. This
edited volume is significant and timely, as unlike other books
currently on the market, it shall draw from real work experiences
and experiments designed anticipate the societal embedding of
emerging technologies. This empirical work shall be supported by
robust theoretical underpinnings.
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