K. Eric Drexler launched the Metamodern blog today, with a focus on “research progress, largely in nanoscience and technology, and … how current research is applicable to the development of advanced nanosystems,” providing what KurzweilAI.net believes will be a unique overview of important developments in nanoscience and related fields.

However, he says, Metamodern isn’t intended to be “a blog about nanotechnology”; its scope includes broader issues involving technologies with world-changing potential, such as social software and “large-scale systems able to restore the atmosphere to its pre-industrial composition.”