CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, is thinking of regulating nanotechnology.

One hopes they do better than they did with their effort to regulate biotechnology back in the 1970s, which was something of an embarrassment. (More on that here.) I have some thoughts on the subject of nanotechnology regulation in general in this paper. And I’ve written more on the subject here.

UPDATE: People seem to be having trouble getting to the nanotechnology paper — I guess SSRN is having some computer problems. I got an HTTP error when I clicked, but it was working fine when I posted. No doubt they’ll have it fixed soon.