{"id":888,"date":"2006-12-06T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/06\/the-drexler-continuum\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:11:11","slug":"the-drexler-continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/06\/the-drexler-continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in the Drexler Continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2006-12\/poen-fwh120506.php\">EurekAlert<\/a>, a press release regarding a speech by former Presidential Science Advisor (under Bill Clinton) Neal Lane, about nanotechnology. Lane apparently warned that the US is in danger of falling behind in nanotechnology, and urged steps to avoid a nano gap, including the following slightly puzzling paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A &#8220;second step critical to the success of nanotechnology is to infuse nanotechnology education into the curriculum in every school and teacher education program.&#8221; Dr. Lane highlighted the huge investment the U.S. made to science and engineering education almost fifty years ago when Russia launched Sputnik&#8211;the world&#8217;s first artificial satellite. He stressed that America&#8217;s &#8220;children and workforce need that same level of national commitment to lead and keep them competitive in the Nano Age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m all in favor of a Sputnik-level investment in science and engineering education. By all means, let&#8217;s put some serious bucks into improving the state of science in the US.<\/p>\n<p>But what does &#8220;infuse nanotechnology education into the curriculum in every school and teacher education program&#8221; even <strong>mean<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via EurekAlert, a press release regarding a speech by former Presidential Science Advisor (under Bill Clinton) Neal Lane, about nanotechnology. Lane apparently warned that the US is in danger of falling behind in nanotechnology, and urged steps to avoid a nano gap, including the following slightly puzzling paragraph: A &#8220;second step critical to the success&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/06\/the-drexler-continuum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education in the Drexler Continuum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}