SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Dr. William Halal - Futurist

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Click the icon to play the podcast [caption id="attachment_212" align="alignleft" width="114" caption="Dr. William Halal"][/caption]Dr. William Halal’s newest book is Technology’s Promise, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of the Future ranked him among “The World’s 100 Most Influential Futurists,“ including H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler. Dr. ...

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Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Renewable energy - primarily in the form of solar power - may be available on a mass-produced scale within ten years or so. Nanotechnology will have a great deal to do with this breakthrough. Nanotechnology - building very small machines from even smaller parts - is leading-edge tech at the intersection ...

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