Brian Wang Interviewed for Public Access Show Future Talk on an Introduction to Nanotechnology

February 12, 2010

Public Access TV Show Future Talk has an episode on Nanotechnology and it’s future applications Host Martin Wasserman interviews technology forecaster and research director of the Lifeboat Foundation Brian Wang, and managing partner of Cleantech Circle and co-founder of the MIT-Stanford-Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum Wasiq Bokhari.

The show is about 30 minutes long and was a basic introduction to the concepts and issues around Nanotechnology.

Future Talk is a cable TV show produced at the Midpeninsula Media Center in Palo Alto, California. The premise of the show is that technology is changing the world at a very rapid pace, and that these changes contain not only promises, but also perils. The show features leading edge guests who analyze the direction of technology, and what we can do to extract the maximum benefits from it, while minimizing the possibility of harm.

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Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/02/brian-wang-interviewed-for-public.html

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