SP-0383: How to bring QUANTEC into the 21st century?

Nanotechnology: using co-regulation to bring regulation of modern technologies into the 21st century.

Stratigraphy into the 21st century

19th and 20th century stratigraphy often concerned itself primarily with classification and nomenclature, during what can be termed the heroic and codex ages of stratigraphy. In contrast, 21st century stratigraphy will fall within the post-modern age. In possession of agreed classification schemes, future stratigraphers will concentrate on (i) the reconstruction of earth environments and proces...

AI into the 21st century

range of subjects. This year’s offerings inanew technology...Retrospectiveassessments are undertaken in the hope of improving eluded a series of lectures entitled “In the ~ Year 2025: Forecasting for the Future,” ~ the anticipatory assessment of technologies emerging today and in the future.’ coordinated by two professional futurists: Joseph Coates. founder of a research company that specialize...

Plague into the 21st century.

As an ancient scourge, plague caused deadly epidemics in medieval Europe, and in the 20th century, it caused extensive mortality in India and Vietnam. Crossing into the 21st century, it has attracted particular attention as a potential bioweapon, for which a new vaccine needs to be developed. Human plague syndromes are mainly bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic, all caused by the bacterium Yersi...

Advancing microsurgical instrumentation into the 21st century.

EDITOR,—It seems a surprising omission from the Waldocks' recent commentary 1 on the future of microsurgical instrumentation not to have mentioned contamination with specific reference to transmissible spongiform en-cephalopathies (TSE). It is known that prion protein is not reliably destroyed by most disinfection or sterilisation procedures, including autoclaving at a temperature as high as 13...