Technological revolutions: Ethics and policy in the dark

Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-152

  Bostrom, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethical, legal, and societal issues (ELSI); S T governance strategy and politics; Technological revolutions ethics and policy in the dark

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950692294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470165874.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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