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/

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Blogs

Responsible Nanotechnology

Graphene Ribbons Now Available

Solid-State Quantum Computer

Today's Tech: Affordable Carbon Capture

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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