Greenpeace is apparently now worried about the environmental consequences of nanotechnology. No great surprise there, but it’s still revealing to see the language used by the chief ‘scientist’ of Greenpeace UK (as reported in the Wall Street Journal):

“What we want to avoid is the situation where a small group of financially and technologically interested people develop something and thrust it on the rest of the world.”

Yikes, there go Gutenberg, and Ford, and Watt and…