Small Times reports Lieberman will introduce nanotech bill in U.S. Senate
According to an article on the Small Times website ("Lieberman working on U.S. Senate bill that would ensure nanotechg funding", by Doug Brown, 26 December 2001), Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is working with several U.S. senators to craft the nationís first broad nanotechnology bill, which will probably be introduced in February or March. The article cites an unnamed senior aide to Sen. Lieberman as its source. Other senators involved in drafting the bill were not named.
According to the article, Lieberman is pushing a bill to ensure that nanotechnology receives as much money and overall federal support as it needs and will likely call for some changes in the way nanotechnology gets federal funding, the Lieberman aide said. Federal investments in nanotechnology education and infrastructure, too, will be addressed in the bill. The bill is also intended to ensure that the federal government is aware of precisely what types of nanotechnology research other countries are conducting and how much they are spending. Finally, the bill will also address potential societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology.
December 28th, 2001 at 11:08 AM
Historically, the US was Rarely Alone
I assume that it was Mark Modzelewski who said this and I take issue with it as a historical inaccuracy.
If you actually look at the history of the development of television, rocketry, nuclear research, computers, plastics and so on over the last hundred years, you find that there was often independant and intense research and development taking place in many countries outside the United States. In the technologies that really mattered, the United States was rarely alone. With the emergence of nanotech this has not changed.