Steve Edwards

The writer of this blog, Steven Edwards, is a writer/analyst/consultant. His first book, The Nanotech Pioneers: Where are they taking us? will be published by Wiley VCH in 2006. Edwards received his doctorate in biology from the University of California, San Diego. He has worked as a research scientist at Salk Institute, Burnham Institute, and had an appointment as an assistant professor in the biochemistry department of Meharry Medical College. He works free lance as an industry analyst for BCC, and was also editor of Nano/Bio Convergence News (now alas, defunct). He has helped BCC organize a number of technical conferences on aspects of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Edwards is a guest editor and frequent contributor to Redzone Profits, a web-based investment newsletter. He will respond to e-mails as time permits sent to steven.alan.edwards@gmail.com.

The Nanotech Pioneers: Where are they taking us?

Hype, hope, or horror? A vivid look at nanotechnology, written by an insider and experienced science writer.The variety of new products and technologies that will spin out of nanoscience is limited only by the imagination of the scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs drawn to this new field. Steve Edwards concentrates on the reader's self interest: no military gadgets, wild fantasies of horror nanobot predators and other sci-fi stuff, but presents a realistic view of how this new field of technology will affect people in the near future. He is in close contact with many pioneers in nanotechnology, and includes their backgrounds to allow readers, especially college students considering a career in the field, to better imagine themselves in such positions.

As technology does not develop in a vacuum, this book also looks at the social, political and economic changes attendant upon the development of nanotechnology.For the science-interested general public as well as chemists, students, lecturers, chemical organizations, materials scientists, journalists, politicians, industry, physicists, and biologists.Nanotech Pioneers can be ordered now at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527312900.html