Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2006 Springer eBook Collection. Chemistry and Materials Science Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781402041075
Content:
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.
Content:
Provides a review of technical developments related to the unification that is taking place among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC). This book assesses potential for revolutionary applications of these developments and their likely impact in improving the human condition
Note:
" ... publication of this work was supported in part by a grant (0423742) from the National Science Foundation to The World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC), Inc. The U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive and nontransferable license to all exclusive rights provided by copyright"--T.p. verso
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Includes bibliographical references
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Progressive Convergence; Measuring the Merger: Examining the Onset of Converging Technologies; The Emergence and Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies; Roadmapping Convergence; NBIC Convergent Technologies and the Innovation Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century; Collaboration on Converging Technologies: Education and Practice; If We Build It, Will They Come? The Cultural Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development; Converging Technologies in Developing Countries: Passionate Voices, Fruitful Actions; Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine
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Biologically-Inspired Cellular Machine ArchitecturesCognitive Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Memory Drugs; Neuropolicy (2005 2035): Converging Technologies Enable Neurotechnology, Creating New Ethical Dilemmas; Information Technology and Cognitive Systems; Cognitive Technologies; NBIC Convergence and Technology-Business Coevolution: Towards a Services Science to Increase Productive Capacity; An Ethic for Enhancing Human Performance Through Integrative Technologies; Science Confronts the Law; Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century
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Co volution of Social Science and Emerging Technologies
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402041068
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Managing nano-bio-info-cogno innovations Converging Technologies in Society
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
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Biology
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Medicine
Keywords:
Nanotechnologie
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Biotechnologie
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Informationstechnik
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Erkenntnistheorie
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-4107-1
URL:
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