Nano dreams and nightmares: Emerging technoscience and the framing and (re)interpreting of the future, present and past

Journal of Futures Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 23-48

  McGrail, Stephen ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Converging technologies; Images of the future; Imaginaries; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; Sociology of expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956743712     PISSN: 10276084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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