Managing nano-bio-info-cogno innovations

✍ Scribed by WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, MIHAIL C. ROCO (auth.), WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, MIHAIL C. ROCO (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tremendous human progress is becoming possible through the development of converging technologies stimulated by advances in four core fields: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology Information technology, and new technologies based in Cognitive science (NBIC). This book provides a unique review of technical developments related to the unification that is rapidly taking place today among these fields. It assesses potential for revolutionary applications of these developments and their likely impact in improving the human condition. The essays included in the book offer 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. This is the third in a series of such volumes on converging technologies edited by Drs. Roco and Bainbridge, the first of which is also available from Springer.

✦ Table of Contents

Progressive Convergence....Pages 1-7
The Emergence and Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies....Pages 9-22
Roadmapping Convergence....Pages 23-31
NBIC Convergent Technologies and the Innovation Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century....Pages 33-45
Measuring the Merger: Examining the Onset of Converging Technologies....Pages 1-3
Collaboration on Converging Technologies: Education and Practice....Pages 71-87
If We Build It, Will They Come? The Cultural Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development....Pages 89-101
Converging Technologies in Developing Countries: Passionate Voices, Fruitful Actions....Pages 103-117
Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine....Pages 119-132
Biologically-Inspired Cellular Machine Architectures....Pages 133-152
Cognitive Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Memory Drugs....Pages 153-171
Neuropolicy (2005 2035): Converging Technologies Enable Neurotechnology, Creating New Ethical Dilemmas....Pages 173-191
Information Technology and Cognitive Systems....Pages 193-201
Cognitive Technologies....Pages 203-226
NBIC Convergence and Technology-Business Coevolution: Towards a Services Science to Increase Productive Capacity....Pages 227-253
An Ethic for Enhancing Human Performance Through Integrative Technologies....Pages 255-278
Science Confronts the Law....Pages 279-284
Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century....Pages 285-307
Co volution of Social Science and Emerging Technologies....Pages 309-335

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences