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NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CANCER [2004] (“To help meet the goal of eliminating death and suffering from cancer by 2015, the National Cancer Institute is engaged in efforts to harness the power of nanotechnology to radically change the way we diagnose, image, and treat cancer. Already, NCI programs have supported research.”)
Energy and Nanotechnology: Strategy for the Future Conference Report 2005 [PDF]
Nanotechnology and the developing World (“Nanotechnology can be harnessed to address some of the world’s most critical development problems. However, to our knowledge, there has been no systematic prioritization of applications of nanotechnology targeted toward these challenges faced by the 5 billion people living in the developing world.”)
National Nanotechnology Initiative (“The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a federal R&D program established to coordinate the multiagency efforts in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. The goals of the NNI are to: * Maintain a world-class research and development program aimed at realizing the full potential of nanotechnology; * Facilitate transfer of new technologies into products for economic growth, jobs, and other public benefit; * Develop educational resources, a skilled workforce, and the supporting infrastructure and tools to advance nanotechnology; and, * Support responsible development of nanotechnology”)
Nanotechnologies: A Preliminary Risk Analysis on the Basis of a Workshop Organized by the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General of the European Commission. (“The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General of the European Commission convened a workshop in Brussels on 1–2 March 2004 entitled “Mapping out Nano Risks”, inviting an international, interdisciplinary group of seventeen experts to examine the hazards, exposure, and risks to human and environmental health potentially associated with materials derived from nanotechnologies (NTs) within the next 3–5 years.”)
Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties. (“Our report on nanotechnologies – ‘Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties’ – was published on 29 July 2004. The report illustrates the fact that nanotechnologies offer many benefits both now and in the future but that public debate is needed about their development. It also highlights the immediate need for research to address uncertainties about the health and environmental effects of nanoparticles – one small area of nanotechnologies. It also makes recommendations about regulation to control exposure to nanoparticles. We hope that you find the report of interest, and welcome your feedback on it (see Send us your comments).”)
Joachim Eiding: Nanotechnologie in Entwicklungsländern. Die Welt im Wandel [Telepolis, 05.07.2005] (“Mohamed H.A. Hassan von der Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in Triest hat eine Zukunftsperspektive für Nanotechnologie skizziert. Dabei sollen künftig die Entwicklungsländer stärker von der neuen Wissenschaft profitieren.”)
Jeffrey R. Harrow Principal Technologist, The Harrow Group: The Incestuous Technology Circle.[2005] (“NBIC (the coming together of the previously disparate fields of Nanotechnology, Biology & medicine, Information sciences, and Cognitive sciences) is already bringing fascinating new things to light. As we further illuminate the nanoworld we may find that it is NBIC’s effects on biology and medicine that will yield the most extraordinary insights and capabilities of all.”)
The Nanoaging Institute. The Cryonics Revolution will begin (“The comments are contributed by users. You are welcome to post comments. You can advertise your project or your web site. Post your opinions etc… it`s free. Alot of people (1000+) are visiting our pages so it is a good way to show your comments.”)
nano Science and Technology Studies – Societal and Ethical Implications (“nSTS is a group of researchers at USC trained in a variety of disciplines who pursue scholarly research and education about the societal, epistemological, and ethical dimensions of nanotechnologies. We recognize the value of multiple points of view and support contributions originating both from interdisciplinary perspectives and from the traditional disciplines. By design, our research bridges across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, engineering, medicine, and the professions. Work produced by nSTS scholars may speak to a variety of audiences, including academics, students, those involved in government and policy, diverse professional fields, and lay publics.”)
Discovering the Nanoscale (editors: D. Baird, A. Nordmann & J. Schummer) (“Science and engineering, industry and politics, environmentalists and transhumanists are Discovering the Nanoscale. Public debate is widening, policy makers are demanding explicit consideration of ethical, legal, and social aspects, and popular books are explaining the achievements and promises of nanoscience. It may therefore seem surprising that this is the first collection of studies that considers nanoscience and nanotechnologies from the critical perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS).”) Complete book as PDF!
The World Future Society (“The World Future Society is an association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. What Does the Society Do? The Society strives to serve as a neutral clearinghouse for ideas about the future. Ideas about the future include forecasts, recommendations, and alternative scenarios. These ideas help people to anticipate what may happen in the next 5, 10, or more years ahead. When people can visualize a better future, then they can begin to create it.”)
Nick Webster: FUTURES MARKET – Welcome to tomorrow’s world.. where robots have rights and the moon is just another holiday destination. [Mirror.co.uk, 26.07.05] (“CARS that drive themselves, artificial brains and human rights for robots… it’s just a matter of time. A Technology Timeline compiled by researchers at BT’s futurology department has come up with a list of advances it says will change tomorrow’s world.”)
Future Human Evolution (“From the down to earth application of stem cell research to the outer regions of interstellar space we take you on a journey through the actual, the probable, the plausible, and a sampling of the very unlikely. This site is dedicated to news, tutorials, editorials, and speculation on technologies and social issues impacting our collective future, The Future of Human Evolution. Its primary purpose is to stimulate your thinking.”)
J.B.S. Haldane: Daedalus, or, Science and the Future. A paper read to the Heretics, Cambridge, on February 4th, 1923. Einer der wichtigsten historischen Referenztexte des Transhumanismus.
J.B. Bernal: The World, the Flesh & the Devil. An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul, 1929 Wichtiger historischer Referenztext des Transhumanismus.
Julian Huxley: Transhumanism, in: New Bottles for New Wine, London: Chatto & Windus, 1957, pp. 13-17. (““I believe in transhumanism”: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.”) Erste Nennung des Begriffs “Transhumanismus”. Julian Huxley – Bruder des berühmten Aldous Huxley – ist der Gründer des Evolutionären Humanismus.
Robert C.W. Ettinger: Prospect of Immortality (“The following is from the dust jacket of the British hard cover edition, 1965. Would you like to live for ever, here on this earth? In the very near future this may become a real possibility. Indeed, in theory it is possible now, for if one was to be deep-frozen and stored away it is inevitable that in fifty, or a hundred, or a thousand years (time becomes meaningless in this context) surgery will have progressed to the point where damage to the cells which is at present irreparable will be able to be repaired. The difficulty at the moment is that present methods of freezing and unfreezing are so crude that a great deal more damage is done in the process. But this again is something which will soon be overcome.”) Einer der wichtigsten Referenztexte von dem wohl wichtigsten Autor in Sachen Cryonic.
Robert C.W. Ettinger: Man Into Superman (“After immortality … comes transhumanity. And OUR Generation can be part of it.”)
Robert C.W. Ettinger: YOUNIVERSE. Toward a Self-Cetered Philosophy [PDF, Download startet sofort! 1,6MB] (“Most people realize some of the time, and a few people realize most of the time, that the most important part of the universe is you, to a near certainty. The most important things are all in your head–literally–and in your own calculations you should be not just number one, but every other number too. Certainly it will take a bit of doing to explain how you can (usually) be selfcentered without being selfish or uncooperative, how you can (usually) reject altruism and still be kind and even generous, and how you can (usually) be calculating without being cold. Just stay with me for a few hundred pages–if your enemy permits.”)
K. Erik Drexler: Engines of Creation (“FOREWORD by Marvin Minsky. K. Eric Drexler’s Engines of Creation is an enormously original book about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically sound.”) Mit diesem Buch began der Nano-Hype.
Ronald Bailey: The Most Dangerous Idea? Why striving to be more than human is human. Reason Fundation, 2004. Available from http://www.reason.com/rb/rb082504.shtml.(Reaktion auf Francis Fukuyamas Artikel: Transhumanism, in: Foreign Policy, Sep2004 Issue 144, 42-43.)
Nick Bostrom: Transhumanism: The World’s Most Dangerous Idea? Available from http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/dangerous.html. (Reaktion auf Francis Fukuyamas Artikel: Transhumanism, in: Foreign Policy, Sep2004 Issue 144, 42-43.)
Nick Bostrom:Transhumanist Values. Available from http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/values.html
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