Simon Fraser University – SCFC861Nanotechnology, The Next Big Idea: course Week 4

Week 4, (Nov. 13, 2014) of my course called, Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea and which is part of Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Continuing Studies programme proved a bit of an adventure as there were two technology breakdowns. Thankfully,, we did have about 30 uninterrupted minutes at one point. My Week Four PowerPoint slides and notes of a sort can be found in links at the end of this post.

For those who may be mildly curious, here’s a description of what was covered in the fourth week (from SFU’s course description webpage),

Week 4: Violent and Other Confrontations

Nanotechnology has provided fuel for confrontations and panics from mail bombs in Mexico to the attempted bombing of an IBM nanotech facility in Switzerland to protests that closed down public dialogue sessions in France to pre-emptive legislation by Berkeley, California’s city council.

Here’s the week 4 slide deck:

Week4_Confronations_Panics

Here are my ‘notes’ for yesterday’s class consisting largely of brief heads designed to remind me of the content to be found by clicking the link directly after the head.

Week 4_Confrontations

Happy Reading!

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