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» Center for Responsible Nanotechnology - CRN investigates the societal implications, long-range risks, and effective use of nanotechnology, and educates those who will influence its use, or be affected by it.

» Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology - A starting point for exploring ethical, social, and environmental implications of nanotechnology.

» The Foresight Institute - Foresight's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition - it focuses on nanotechnology and "systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions".

» Nanosocialism - Seminal paper which argues that nanotechnology projections need to be tempered by realism about what it will be used for in the hands of corporations and governments - but that nanotechnology also offers enormous opportunities for the liberation of humanity.

» Nanotechnology: The Coming Molecular Revolution - Student report on the potential for nanotechnology from a management point of view.

» Nanotechnology Without Genies - Critique of the belief system associated with nanotechnology.

» Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - Report from an interdisplinary workshop held at the National Science Foundation (U.S.), covering a range of topics in the area of ethical, legal, social, cultural, medical, political, and environmental implications.

» University of South Carolina NanoScience and Technology Studies - Aims to provide scholarship and commentary on issues of nanotechnology to raise ethical, legal, political and societal issues, risks and benefits, and public and private sector approaches on its development.

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