nbic, the converging technologies

NBIC, THE CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Designing the future: NBIC technologies and human performance enhancement.

Never before has any civilization had the unique opportunity to enhance human performance on the scale that we will face in the near future. The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) is creating a set of powerful tools that have the potential to significantly enhance human performance as well as transform society, science, economics, ...

Converging Technologies, Shifting Boundaries

At the beginning of the 21 century, most people are no longer surprised by technological revolutions. The twentieth century brought us information technology and biotechnology: key technologies for pioneering innovations such as the computer, the Internet and genetically modified plants. In the transition to the twenty-first century, two other important developments: nanotechnology (the researc...

Context of NBIC-Technologies Development: Institutions, Ideology and Social Myths

The article presents the author’s viewpoint on the basic characteristics of the socio-cultural context of the development of convergent technologies in the modern world. The main aspects of this contextual area are the states of social institutions, ideology and social myths in conditions of institutional competition. It is proved in the article that modern convergent technologies in addition t...

Possibilities for global governance of converging technologies

The convergence of nanotechnology, modern biology, the digital revolution and cognitive sciences will bring about tremendous improvements in transformative tools, generate new products and services, enable opportunities to meet and enhance human potential and social achievements, and in time reshape societal relationships. This paper focuses on the progress made in governance of such converging...

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

We stand at the threshold of a New Renaissance in science and technology, based on a comprehensive understanding of the structure and behavior of matter from the nanoscale up to the most complex system yet discovered, the human brain. Unification of science based on unity in nature and its holistic investigation will lead to technological convergence and a more efficient societal structure. In ...