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Mike Treder
Mike Treder is the Managing Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Mr. Treder is a prolific writer, speaker, and activist with a background in technology and communications company management. An accomplished presenter on the societal implications of emerging technologies, Mr. Treder was appointed an IEET Fellow in 2004. He lives in New York City, and has addressed conferences and groups around the world, including in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, New Zealand and Brazil.
In 2002 Mr. Treder co-founded the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology with Chris Phoenix, and served as CRN’s Executive Director from 2002-2009. The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology is a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the major military, societal, and environmental implications of molecular manufacturing. CRN promotes public awareness and education, with the aim of creating and implementing wise, comprehensive, and balanced plans for global management of the technology. Mr. Treder will remain on the Board of Advisors for CRN.
His other affiliations include:
Member, Board of Directors, Humanity+
Scientific Advisory Board, Lifeboat Foundation
Advisory Board, Global Risks Council
Consultant, Future Technologies Advisory Group
Honorary Member, Federation of American Scientists
Editorial Advisory Board, Nanotech Briefs
Consultant, AC/UNU Millennium Project
Home Page :
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/treder/
Blogs
Responsible Nanotechnology
Graphene Ribbons Now Available
Solid-State Quantum Computer
Today's Tech: Affordable Carbon Capture
Articles
"The Difficult Questions of ‘Personhood’" Ethical Technology
Jul 2, 2009
"Progress on the Technoprogressive Wiki" Ethical Technology
Jun 30, 2009
"Technoprogressives and Transhumanists: What’s the difference?" Ethical Technology
Jun 25, 2009
"Temporal Powers of Ten" Ethical Technology
Jun 15, 2009
"Life sucks and then you die…" Ethical Technology
Jun 12, 2009
"For-profit health insurance is an obscenity" Ethical Technology
Jun 10, 2009
"Existential Movie War" Ethical Technology
Jun 8, 2009
"Moral Relativism vs. Moral Authority" Ethical Technology
Jun 5, 2009
"Not ‘more!’ Not ‘enough!’ We want BETTER!!" Ethical Technology
Jun 1, 2009
"Awaiting the Sixth Paradigm" Ethical Technology
May 31, 2009
"Toward a Technoprogressive Manifesto" Ethical Technology
May 30, 2009
"How to stop global warming. Or not." Ethical Technology
May 28, 2009
"Face-to-Face Still Beats Byte-to-Byte" Ethical Technology
May 24, 2009
"Participatory Panopticon Trial One: FAIL" Ethical Technology
May 23, 2009
"(Unrelated?) Huge News Stories" Ethical Technology
May 21, 2009
"The playing field is tilted—in our favor!" Ethical Technology
May 18, 2009
"Widening Divides, or Bridging Them" Ethical Technology
May 16, 2009
"Planet-scale Engineering" Ethical Technology
May 15, 2009
"The Mother of All Sci-Fi Wonders" Ethical Technology
May 14, 2009
"American Spectator reviews Catastrophic Risks" Ethical Technology
May 13, 2009
"Life Values: Quantity, Quality, and Meaning" Ethical Technology
May 11, 2009
"Live from New York: Two Cultures, Part Two" Ethical Technology
May 9, 2009
"Live from New York - It’s Two Cultures!" Ethical Technology
May 9, 2009
"Getting Past Us vs. Them" Ethical Technology
May 6, 2009
"When Numbers and Words Collide" Ethical Technology
May 5, 2009
"The Two Cultures in the 21st Century" Ethical Technology
May 4, 2009
"Technoprogressives Should Favor Progressive Gains" Ethical Technology
May 2, 2009
"Who Wants to Live Forever?" Ethical Technology
Apr 29, 2009
"The Ethics of Valuing Human Lives" Ethical Technology
Apr 27, 2009
"Screw the small steps and simple things: here are ten Earth Day goals that matter" Ethical Technology
Apr 23, 2009
"Conflicted Over Majestic Architecture" Ethical Technology
Apr 22, 2009
"Cops Beware: Little Brother is Watching" Ethical Technology
Apr 12, 2009
"Techno-Progressive or Techno-Radical?" Ethical Technology
Apr 5, 2009
"Evolutionary Ethics" Ethical Technology
Apr 4, 2009
"If you’re a man, you’re a sucker." Ethical Technology
Apr 2, 2009
"Child Scientists Working Today" Ethical Technology
Apr 2, 2009
"Getting Our Priorities Straight" Ethical Technology
Mar 30, 2009
"Is a canonical morality necessary?" Ethical Technology
Mar 28, 2009
"Robotic War Appears Inevitable" Ethical Technology
Mar 26, 2009
"Science, Religion and the Quest for Secular Morality" Ethical Technology
Mar 25, 2009
"21st Century Visionary Housing" Ethical Technology
Mar 23, 2009
"What is a Technoprogressive?" Ethical Technology
Mar 21, 2009
"Capitalism, Optimism, and the Technoprogressive" Ethical Technology
Mar 20, 2009
"Participatory Panopticon’s Bumpy Road" Ethical Technology
Mar 16, 2009
"Not Just a Desire but an Urgent Need" Ethical Technology
Mar 15, 2009
"Fiction Author Speaks Truth" Ethical Technology
Mar 13, 2009
"Adapt or Collapse" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 12, 2009
"The secret of long life? It’s all down to how fast you react" Ethical Technology
Mar 11, 2009
"The Ethics of Killer Robots" Responsible Nanotechnology
Feb 23, 2009
"Russia’s Emphasis on Nano Weaponry" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jan 24, 2009
"Memo to Pres. Obama: Advanced Nanotechnology - What, When, and Why" Change.gov
Jan 15, 2009
"Russia’s Crash Nano Program" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 15, 2008
"Nanotechnology Risk Assessment FAIL" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 12, 2008
"Memo to Barack Obama" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 7, 2008
"The Magnitude of Risk" Responsible Nanotechnology
Nov 21, 2008
"Future War Revisited" Responsible Nanotechnology
Nov 20, 2008
"Weather Balloons Gone Wild"
Nov 16, 2008
"Limits to Growth?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Nov 7, 2008
"Underrating the Mid-Range" Responsible Nanotechnology
Oct 18, 2008
"The End of Capitalism?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Sep 16, 2008
"Vinge’s Singularity" Responsible Nanotechnology
Aug 10, 2008
"Will $45 trillion save us?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jun 20, 2008
"The Power Pyramid" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jun 1, 2008
"The Invisible Hand Needs Some Help" Responsible Nanotechnology
May 21, 2008
"Nanotechnology and the Potential for Global Governance" Nanotechnology Now
May 19, 2008
"Nano Motors" Responsible Nanotechnology
May 1, 2008
"Geoengineering: Go slow! Carbon reduction: Hurry!" Responsible Nanotechnology
Apr 25, 2008
"Civilization’s Demise" Responsible Nanotechnology
Apr 12, 2008
"Why not do it all?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Apr 8, 2008
"Radical Prosthetic Implants" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 26, 2008
"The Other Half" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 24, 2008
"Battlebots with a Conscience?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 16, 2008
"Who will win the nano race?" Nanotechnology Now
Feb 24, 2008
"CRN at Five Years Old" Responsible Nanotechnology
Feb 4, 2008
"Emerging Economies and U.S. Hegemony" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jan 30, 2008
"Enabling Nanotechnologies" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jan 17, 2008
"Underfunding of US Basic Science Slowing Progress" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jan 15, 2008
"CRN’s Nanotechnology Scenarios Project" Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 12, 2007
"Systems of Mass Disruption" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 2, 2007
"Review of Military Nanotechnology" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nov 11, 2007
"Two Disappointing Novels" Responsible Nanotechnology
Nov 5, 2007
"Rampant Democratization" Responsible Nanotechnology
Oct 27, 2007
"Stopping Climate Change (or not)" Responsible Nanotechnology
Oct 6, 2007
"Post-Millennial Malaise in SF?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Aug 14, 2007
"Armed Robots Make History" Responsible Nanotechnology
Aug 6, 2007
"On the Future of Warfare" Responsible Nanotechnology
Aug 1, 2007
"Sudden Step or Gradual Rise?" Nanotechnology Now
Jul 18, 2007
"Unease Toward Big Powers" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jul 7, 2007
"Humans and Violence" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jun 30, 2007
"The Future, Actually" Responsible Nanotechnology
Jun 7, 2007
"Implanted Medical Computers" Responsible Nanotechnology
May 24, 2007
"Geoengineering Reconsidered" Responsible Nanotechnology
May 23, 2007
"Russia and Nanotechnology" Respondible Nanotechnology
May 6, 2007
"Mild, Wild, and Magical" Responsible Nanotechnology
Apr 16, 2007
"Congress and the Singularity" Responsible Nanotechnology
Apr 1, 2007
"Will Nanotechnology Produce a SciTech Revolution?" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 20, 2007
"China’s Environmental Future" Responsible Nanotechnology
Mar 14, 2007
"Building Humanoid Robots" Responsible Nanotechnology
Feb 21, 2007
"Nukes and Nanotech" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 14, 2006
"Future WMDs" Responsible Nanotechnology
Dec 12, 2006
Upcoming Appearances
Treder on “Humanism and Transhumanism” (Philadelphia, PA - Oct 25, 2009)
Recent Multimedia
TransAlchemy interviews Mike Treder, Part 1 2009-06-23
Message to Our Descendants 2009-06-17
Small Machines, Big Choices, Catastrophic Risks 2009-06-11
All the Global Catastrophic Risks Talks Online 2009-01-05
Intro to Global Catastrophic Risks Conf 2008-12-17
CRNano Conference Presentations 2007-09-19
Treder speech on nanotechnology in New Zealand 2006-10-05
Mike Treder on NZ Radio 2006-09-05
Mike Treder debates Nano-Enhancement Tech on SAGE Crossroads 2004-09-27
News
Treder, Goertzel, Scott in Summer Issue of h+ Magazine (Jun 03, 2009)
Mike Treder Appointed Managing Director of the IEET (Mar 09, 2009)
Update on Humanity+ Board Elections (Jan 16, 2009)
Humanity+ Board Elections (Jan 12, 2009)
MIke Treder reports from Rhodes, Greece (Oct 17, 2008)
Mike Treder shares “bottom up” development strategy in Greece (Oct 09, 2008)
Mike chats with the Naval War College (Oct 02, 2008)
Some Pics from the Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford (Jul 29, 2008)
Treder reports from World Future Society (Jul 29, 2008)
IEET ally CRN releases Nanotechnology Scenario Series (Dec 11, 2007)
Mike Treder Reports on Growing Interest in Accelerating Tech Change (Jun 01, 2007)
Treder’s CRN Develops Nanotech Development Scenarios (Jan 24, 2007)
Mike Treder “live-blogging” Emerging Tech conf at Responsible Nanotechnology (Sep 27, 2006)
Treder to participate in futurist meeting (Apr 05, 2006)
CRN Global Task Force Essays Available Online (Mar 31, 2006)
IEET Convergencia in Madrid (Mar 12, 2006)
Treder Forms Task Force to Study Societal Implications of Nanotech (Aug 16, 2005)
Treder & Hughes Participate in Terasem Meeting (Jul 22, 2005)
July 20, 2005 Terasem talks webcast (Jul 20, 2005)
Past Appearances
Mike Treder Liveblogs “Two Cultures in the 21st Century” (New York, New York - May 09, 2009)
Treder @ Monmouth Junior Science Symposium (Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA - Apr 01, 2009)
Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08 (Mountain View, California - Nov 15, 2008)
GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization (Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Nov 14, 2008)
Treder @ Basque Country Program on Globalization (San Sebastian, Spain - Sep 03, 2008)