Editors:
- The first assessment of the convergence of neuroscience and nanotechnology, its implications for the brain, and the social and ethical questions to which it gives rise
- A novel approach to real-time assessment of new and emerging technologies
- The first serious empirical analysis, using quantitative and qualitative methods, of the potential for and societal ramifications of human cognitive enhancement
Part of the book series: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society (YNTS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to RTTA
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Brain Repair and Brain-Machine Implants
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Enhancing the Brain and Cognition
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About this book
Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human: language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture, politics. The neurosciences have given us, in recent decades, fundamental new insights into how the brain works and what that means for how we see ourselves as individuals and as communities. Now – with the help of new advances in nanotechnology – brain science proposes to go further: to study its molecular foundations, to repair brain functions, to create mind-machine interfaces, and to enhance human mental capacities in radical ways. This book explores the convergence of these two revolutionary scientific fields and the implications of this convergence for the future of human societies. In the process, the book offers a significant new approach to technology assessment, one which operates in real-time, alongside the innovation process, to inform the ways in which new fields of science and technology emerge in, get shaped by, and help shape human societies.
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From the reviews:
“The text goes through a review of new technology relating to biophysical, electronic, neurophysiology, and cognitive enhancement pertaining to this burgeoning field of Nanotechnology as relating to brain research. The authors do an excellent job on discussing some of the moral, ethical, and religious discussions now being made with reference to this subject. … I highly recommend this book to all audiences.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, November, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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, The Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Arizona State University, TEMPE, USA
Sean A. Hays
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, The Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Jason Scott Robert, Clark A. Miller, Ira Bennett
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future
Editors: Sean A. Hays, Jason Scott Robert, Clark A. Miller, Ira Bennett
Series Title: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1787-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1786-2Published: 14 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8413-9Published: 21 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1787-9Published: 13 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 400
Topics: Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Philosophy of Science, Neurology