Nanotechnology oversight: An agenda for the new administration

(Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies) Few domestic policy areas that the new administration must address will have greater long-range consequences than nanotechnology -- a new technology that has been compared with the industrial revolution in terms of its impact on society.

If the right decisions are made, nanotechnology will bring vast improvements to almost every area of daily living.

If the wrong decisions are made, the American economy, human health and the environment will suffer.