Building powerfully advanced products quickly, easily, cheaply, and in huge numbers — that’s the disruptive impact of molecular manufacturing. When a new technology has the potential to radically transform national and global economies, geopolitical relations, and even human social structures, we’d better learn as much about it as we can. A critically important question to answer is who. Which nation, group, corporation, or consortium is most likely to achieve the “holy grail” of nanotechnology first?
CRN at Five Years Old
by Mike TrederIEET Fellow Mike Treder, Executive Director of IEET ally the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, reflects on CRN’s first five years.
Underfunding of US Basic Science Slowing Progress
by Mike TrederBush’s budget for scientific research is disappointing again in 2008. For the fifth year in a row funding for the National Institutes of Health will fail to keep up with inflation.
Malware for Materials
by Jamais CascioThe smart environment era is just about upon us, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when our previously “dumb” surroundings become embedded with Internet-connected intelligence.
CRN’s Nanotechnology Scenarios Project
by Mike TrederThe Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, under the direction of Mike Treder and Jamais Cascio, worked with two dozen technology futurists to develop eight scenarios imagining the future of nanotechnology.
IEET ally CRN releases Nanotechnology Scenario Series
IEET Fellow Mike Treder directs the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology which - with the assistance of IEET Fellow Jamais Cascio, who also serves as CRN’s Director of Impacts Analysis - has released eight scenarios for the future development of nanotechnology reflecting a collective scenario process of two dozen people.
Miah Starts Upstream Nano to Encourage Foresightful Nanopolicy
IEET Fellow Andy Miah and Bettina Hoermann have set up a new email discussion list titled ‘Upstream Nano‘. “We’re aiming to build a special interest group on public engagement and nanoscience and nanotechnology, where an exchange of ideas on the particularities of such work are the focus. Joining the list is simple and information can be found here." Andy is increasingly being tapped as a nanomedical thinker by the European policy strata.
If you are interested in nanopolicy also check out the good work of IEET Fellow Mike Treder, his Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and his tireless promotion of nanopolicy on this side of the Atlantic.
Systems of Mass Disruption
by Mike TrederA few days ago, I was privileged to make a presentation on “Nanotechnology and the Future of Warfare” to a group of senior officers and affiliated civilian researchers at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. We had an enjoyable, wide-ranging, three-hour discussion about molecular manufacturing, climate change, global politics, and the ways in which wars are fought.
Congress and the Singularity
by Mike Treder“Nanotechnology: The Future is Coming Sooner Than You Think” is the title of a report [PDF] published this month by Representative Jim Saxton (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress.
Will Nanotechnology Produce a SciTech Revolution?
by Mike TrederWhat will it really be like when exponential general-purpose molecular manufacturing is achieved?
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