Mike Treder

Mike Treder, managing director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a prolific writer, speaker, and activist with a background in media and communications. He has published dozens of articles and papers and been interviewed numerous times by the media. As an accomplished presenter on the societal implications of emerging technologies, Mr. Treder has addressed conferences and groups around the world, including in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil.

Mr. Treder co-founded the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) in 2002 and served as its executive director for six years. CRN promotes public awareness and education about the implications of molecular manufacturing, with the aim of creating and implementing wise, comprehensive, and balanced plans for global management of the technology. Mr. Treder currently sits on the Board of Advisors for CRN.

In addition to his work with the IEET, Mr. Treder is a consultant to the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University, serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation, is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a consultant to the Future Technologies Advisory Group, and a member of the World Future Society.

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Blogs

Ethical Technology

Where Next for the Space Program?

Mike Treder History is Contingent, Built on Flukes, Accidents, and Surprises

Ben Goertzel Compassion

Rocky Rawstern What Would You Say?

Teaching Theories

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Articles

"History is Contingent, Built on Flukes, Accidents, and Surprises"   Ethical Technology  Mar 17, 2010

"Health Care Good, System Bad"   Ethical Technology  Mar 11, 2010

"What “Irrelevance” Means and What It Doesn’t"   Ethical Technology  Mar 9, 2010

"The Uncertain Future of Transhumanism"   Ethical Technology  Mar 8, 2010

"We’re All Alone and No One Knows Why"   Ethical Technology  Mar 2, 2010

"A Tale of Two Earthquakes"   Ethical Technology  Feb 27, 2010

"What takes the place of the nation-state?"   Ethical Technology  Feb 23, 2010

"Is extinction in your future?"   Ethical Technology  Jan 26, 2010

"Sex and Gender: Women, Men, and Androids"   Ethical Technology  Jan 22, 2010

"Religion, Politics, Death, and Hope"   Ethical Technology  Jan 15, 2010

"Avatar 3D: The Experience"   Ethical Technology  Jan 12, 2010

"Tools Are Not the Same as Solutions"   Ethical Technology  Jan 11, 2010

"So much for high tech—what about high touch?"   Ethical Technology  Jan 7, 2010

"Time Traveler’s Map, 2010-2050"   Ethical Technology  Jan 5, 2010

"Mike Treder: Best and Worst"   h+  Dec 31, 2009

"Changes and Trends, For Better or For Worse"   Ethical Technology  Dec 31, 2009

"Are You Amazed Yet?"   Ethical Technology  Dec 29, 2009

"Making the Best of a Messy Real World"   Ethical Technology  Dec 18, 2009

"Love, Virtually"   Ethical Technology  Dec 11, 2009

"Pop-Bio-Culture Seminar Totally Rocked"   Ethical Technology  Dec 5, 2009

"Sex Slaves, Polls, and Ethics"   Ethical Technology  Dec 2, 2009

"Getting Used to Hideousness"   Ethical Technology  Nov 30, 2009

"You 2.0"   Ethical Technology  Nov 27, 2009

"Tomorrow’s Weather—Wrong as Usual"   Ethical Technology  Nov 24, 2009

"Deciding Whose Death Matters Most"   Ethical Technology  Nov 20, 2009

"Every Five Seconds"   Ethical Technology  Nov 18, 2009

"The Sharp Sword of Rationality"   Ethical Technology  Nov 14, 2009

"21st Century Threats"   Ethical Technology  Nov 10, 2009

"Memory and Insanity"   Ethical Technology  Nov 4, 2009

"Fearing the Wrong Monsters"   Ethical Technology  Oct 31, 2009

"Women, Men, Logic, and Emotion"   Ethical Technology  Oct 22, 2009

"Student Competition on Sustainability"   Carnegie Council  Oct 19, 2009

"Sunday LORCs"   Ethical Technology  Oct 18, 2009

"Life-recording: Are you game?"   Ethical Technology  Oct 16, 2009

"Blog Action Day ‘09: Climate Change"   Ethical Technology  Oct 15, 2009

"LORCs of High Coolness"   Ethical Technology  Sep 27, 2009

"Promoting Principles, Not Predictions"   Ethical Technology  Sep 25, 2009

"Two New IEET Publications"   Ethical Technology  Sep 24, 2009

"Global Governance Made Easy"   Ethical Technology  Sep 23, 2009

"On Being a Skeptical Transhumanist"   Ethical Technology  Sep 21, 2009

"LORCS Abound"   Ethical Technology  Sep 19, 2009

"Is tomorrow the end?"   Ethical Technology  Sep 16, 2009

"A Better World: Ten Big Ideas"   New Scientist  Sep 14, 2009

"How Atheists View Religion"   Ethical Technology  Sep 14, 2009

"More LORCs"   Ethical Technology  Sep 12, 2009

"A Poll on Global Governance"   Ethical Technology  Sep 11, 2009

"The Democratization of Virulence"   Ethical Technology  Sep 11, 2009

"Artificial Friends"   Ethical Technology  Sep 9, 2009

"The Next 100 Years"   Ethical Technology  Sep 6, 2009

"Links Of Required Clicking"   Ethical Technology  Sep 4, 2009

"Ethics of Human Enhancement"   Human Enhancement Ethics Group  Sep 3, 2009

"Climate Change Conundrums"   Ethical Technology  Sep 2, 2009

"IEET Issues and Ethics"   Ethical Technology  Aug 31, 2009

"Making the Crazy/Sensible Choice"   Ethical Technology  Aug 29, 2009

"Are you a vegan, a vegetarian, or an omnivore?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 27, 2009

"Of Armchairs and Vegans"   Ethical Technology  Aug 26, 2009

"This is Your Brain on Neurotechnology"   h+ Magazine  Aug 24, 2009

"Uncanny Robotic Dexterity"   Ethical Technology  Aug 23, 2009

"Are you ready for this?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 21, 2009

"Can movies tell the future?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 21, 2009

"Religious Education—and Other Oxymorons"   Ethical Technology  Aug 20, 2009

"Meanwhile, People Are Dying"   Ethical Technology  Aug 18, 2009

"Blogging as Political Action"   Ethical Technology  Aug 14, 2009

"Cloning Neanderthals"   Ethical Technology  Aug 12, 2009

"Making Dogs Smarter Than Humans"   Ethical Technology  Aug 11, 2009

"Fast Moving Sidewalks"   Ethical Technology  Aug 9, 2009

"Creationism, Birtherism, Singularitarianism, and Other Fantasies"   Ethical Technology  Aug 7, 2009

"What’s the Harm?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 4, 2009

"“Food Fight” or substantive debate?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 3, 2009

"Catching Planet Killers"   Ethical Technology  Jul 31, 2009

"Blurring Lines"   Ethical Technology  Jul 29, 2009

"Transhumanism as Religion"   Ethical Technology  Jul 24, 2009

"Can you see ahead 90 years?"   Ethical Technology  Jul 22, 2009

"Luck of the Draw"   Ethical Technology  Jul 21, 2009

"Implanting a Telescope Inside the Eye"   Ethical Technology  Jul 21, 2009

"No More Libertarians"   Ethical Technology  Jul 19, 2009

"Singing the Singularity"   Ethical Technology  Jul 16, 2009

"Reliving Apollo 11"   Ethical Technology  Jul 14, 2009

"Should off-Earth expansion be a high priority for humanity?"   Ethical Technology  Jul 14, 2009

"Climate Change Explained"   Ethical Technology  Jul 10, 2009

"Treder on FastForward Radio"   Ethical Technology  Jul 7, 2009

"Dropping Bombs"   Ethical Technology  Jul 6, 2009

"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