IEET Fellow Mike Treder, Executive Director of IEET ally the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, reflects on CRN’s first five years.

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Bush’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.

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The 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.

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The 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.

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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.

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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.

A 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.

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“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.

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What will it really be like when exponential general-purpose molecular manufacturing is achieved?

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Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards

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