Mike Treder

Mike Treder is the Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, an organization working to raise awareness of the issues presented by advanced nanotechnology. Mr. Treder is a professional writer, speaker, and activist with a background in technology and communications company management. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Biology. As an accomplished presenter on the societal implications of emerging technologies, Mike has addressed conferences and groups around the world, including in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, New Zealand and Brazil. Mike lives in New York City.  His other affiliations include:

• 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://www.crnano.org/speaker.mt.htm

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Blogs

Responsible Nanotechnology

Reviewing the Argument

Responsibility to Protect

A Woman

Catastrophic Conference

(Limited) Nano Futures

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Articles

"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

"Predicting the Future"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Nov 22, 2006

"Irresponsible Nanotechnology"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Nov 15, 2006

"Nukes vs. Wood Fires"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Oct 31, 2006

"Elevators, Space, and War"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Oct 12, 2006

"Adapting to abundance"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Sep 8, 2006

"Are you a Cosmopolitan?"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Aug 22, 2006

"Molecular Nanosystems"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jul 25, 2006

"Risk Governance Report"   CRNano.org  Jul 12, 2006

"Friends Say “Size Matters”"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jul 12, 2006

"Hope for human nature"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jul 4, 2006

"Problems That Lie Ahead"   CRNano  Jun 12, 2006

"Robot factory predictions"   Responsible Nanotechnology  May 19, 2006

"Evolution? Or Revolution?"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Apr 15, 2006

"Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel"   Nanotechnology Perceptions 2(1)  Mar 27, 2006

"Dangerous Knowledge"   Responsible nanotechnology  Mar 14, 2006

"From Heaven to Doomsday: Seven Future Scenarios"   Future Brief  Feb 18, 2006

"Out of sight, out of mind"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Feb 13, 2006

"Nanotech Lessons from Bioweapons"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Feb 2, 2006

"Debating Nanotech Laws"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jan 18, 2006

"Aging, Death, and Nanotech"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Dec 28, 2005

"A Global Surge Protector?"   Future Brief  Dec 8, 2005

"Molecular Manufacturing Skeptics Begin Backpedaling"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Oct 26, 2005

"Reasons for Optimism"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Oct 14, 2005

"Dark Visions of a Fantastic Future"   Future Brief  Sep 27, 2005

"Orwellian ideas from Wired News"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Sep 22, 2005

"Nanotech: What the public wants"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Sep 12, 2005

"Green trouble brewing on the horizon for nanotech"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Sep 7, 2005

"Advanced Human Intelligence"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Aug 10, 2005

"Cure aging with nanobots?"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jul 14, 2005

"21st Century People’s History"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jul 9, 2005

"Next Big Thing"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Jun 23, 2005

"Tiny Changes, Exponentially Multiplied"   Future Brief  Jun 20, 2005

"Does 10% = Halfway?"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Jun 14, 2005

"Development Shock"   Responsible Nanotechnology  May 16, 2005

"War, Interdependence, and Nanotechnology"   Future Brief  May 3, 2005

"Toward a System of Global Management"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Apr 26, 2005

"Nanotechnology and the Singularity"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Apr 20, 2005

"Russia and Immortality"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Apr 6, 2005

"Technology Works"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Apr 3, 2005

"Turn on the Nanotech High Beams"   Future Brief  Mar 31, 2005

"Saving Lives with Nanotechnology"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Mar 11, 2005

"A Time to Prepare"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Jan 19, 2005

"The Meaning of Nanotechnology"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Jan 13, 2005

"Nanotechnology Priorities and the Developing World"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Jan 4, 2005

"Invisibility"   Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  Dec 22, 2004

"Accurately Describing a Technology That Does Not Yet Exist"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Feb 29, 2004

"Applying the Precautionary Principle to Nanotechnology"   Responsible Nanotechnology  Dec 31, 2002