This book provides a unique review of technical developments related to the unification that is rapidly taking place today among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC).
It assesses potential for revolutionary applications of these developments and their likely impact in improving the human condition and offers a wide variety of scholarly views on the likely societal impacts and policy implications of these developments and applications, including assessments of educational, economic, commercial, legal, ethical, political, and social implications.
Author(s): William Sims Bainbridge
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 381
Tags: Специальные дисциплины;Наноматериалы и нанотехнологии;
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5
1. Progressive Convergence......Page 7
2. The Emergence and Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies......Page 14
3. Roadmapping Convergence......Page 28
4. NBIC Convergent Technologies and the Innovation Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century......Page 37
5. Measuring the Merger: Examining the Onset of Converging Technologies......Page 50
6. Collaboration on Converging Technologies: Education and Practice......Page 73
7. If We Build It, Will They Come? The Cultural Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development......Page 90
8. Converging Technologies in Developing Countries: Passionate Voices, Fruitful Actions......Page 103
9. Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine......Page 118
10. Biologically-Inspired Cellular Machine Architectures......Page 132
11. Cognitive Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Memory Drugs......Page 152
12. Neuropolicy (2005–2035): Converging Technologies Enable Neurotechnology, Creating New Ethical Dilemmas......Page 171
13. Information Technology and Cognitive Systems......Page 190
14. Cognitive Technologies......Page 199
15. NBIC Convergence and Technology-Business Coevolution: Towards a Services Science to Increase Productive Capacity......Page 223
16. An Ethic for Enhancing Human Performance Through Integrative Technologies......Page 250
17. Science Confronts the Law......Page 274
18. Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century......Page 280
19. Coevolution of Social Science and Emerging Technologies......Page 303
APPENDIX 1: Survey of NBIC Applications......Page 330
APPENDIX 2: Information Technology for Convergence......Page 339
APPENDIX 3: Commercializing and Managing the Converging New Technologies......Page 361
B......Page 370
C......Page 371
D......Page 372
F......Page 373
H......Page 374
J......Page 375
M......Page 376
N......Page 377
R......Page 378
S......Page 379
V......Page 380
Y......Page 381
