Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Progressive Convergence

   • WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, MIHAIL C. ROCO

   Pages 1-7

3. The Emergence and Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies

   • MIHAIL C. ROCO

   Pages 9-22

4. Roadmapping Convergence

   • Richard E. Albright

   Pages 23-31

5. NBIC Convergent Technologies and the Innovation Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

   • James Canton

   Pages 33-45

6. Measuring the Merger: Examining the Onset of Converging Technologies

   • Evan S. Michelson

   Pages 1-3

7. Collaboration on Converging Technologies: Education and Practice

   • Michael E. Gorman, James Groves

   Pages 71-87

8. If We Build It, Will They Come? The Cultural Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development

   • Thomas A. Finholt, Jeremy P. Birnholtz

   Pages 89-101

9. Converging Technologies in Developing Countries: Passionate Voices, Fruitful Actions

   • Jim Hurd

   Pages 103-117

10. Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine

    • James R. Baker Jr

    Pages 119-132

11. Biologically-Inspired Cellular Machine Architectures

    • Gary H. Bernstein, Leon O. Chua, Árpád L. Csurgay, Patrick Fay, Yih-Fang Huang, Wolfgang Porod et al.

    Pages 133-152

12. Cognitive Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Memory Drugs

    • Wrye Sententia

    Pages 153-171

13. Neuropolicy (2005 2035): Converging Technologies Enable Neurotechnology, Creating New Ethical Dilemmas

    • Zack Lynch

    Pages 173-191

14. Information Technology and Cognitive Systems

    • Robert St. Amant

    Pages 193-201

15. Cognitive Technologies

    • WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE

    Pages 203-226

16. NBIC Convergence and Technology-Business Coevolution: Towards a Services Science to Increase Productive Capacity

    • Jim Spohrer, Douglas McDavid, Paul P. Maglio, James W. Cortada

    Pages 227-253

17. An Ethic for Enhancing Human Performance Through Integrative Technologies

    • George Khushf

    Pages 255-278

18. Science Confronts the Law

    • Sonia E. Miller

    Pages 279-284

19. Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century

    • James J. Hughes

    Pages 285-307

20. Co volution of Social Science and Emerging Technologies

    • Bruce E. Tonn

    Pages 309-335

With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and science-driven business revolution. The already emerging reality of convergence is to be found in genomics, robotics, bio-information and artificial intelligence applications, such as: • Self-assembled, self-cleaning and self-healing manufactured materials and textiles, and much stronger, lighter and more customizable structural materials, • Miniature sensors allowing unobtrusive real-time health monitoring and dramatically improved diagnosis; with greatly enhanced real time information to vehicles and drivers on the way, • New generations of supercomputers and efficient energy generators based on biological processes, • Greatly enhanced drug delivery from unprecedented control over fundamental structural properties and biocompatibility of materials. These advances are here already, or in development. And Japan, other Asian nations and Western European countries are investing heavily and moving aggressively to develop and apply NBIC technologies. Notwithstanding the passage of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, significant further funding and action by both government and private industry will be critical to maintaining US scientific and industry leadership.

• NBIC
• biotechnology
• cognitive science
• converging technologies
• information technology
• innovation
• nanotechnology
• technology roadmap

• National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA

  WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, MIHAIL C. ROCO

Dr. Mihail C. Roco is a senior advisor on nanotechnology for the National Science Foundation, as well as chair on the Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council.

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