Converging Technologies for improving human perfomance
If you, like me, are imterested in techology, how it affects your life today and how it will change the world in the future the National Science Foundation has published a 405 page .pdf document called "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE" that should be a must on your reading list. This isn’t science fiction. This is future history solidly based on todays science and innovation. Quoting from the introduction, this document examines:
"the implications of the converging technologies (nano-bio-info-cogno) by remapping the main societal paths, towards more functional and coarser pathways instead of the less organized and finer mesh we have now, and with an increased focus on people. New patterns are envisioned in working habits, in economic activity, and in human civilization."
Thanks to Jeffrey Harrow for bringing this to my attention.
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