Acknowledgements.- Study Team and Report Authors.- External Reviewers.- Preface (Executive Summary).- Overview and Recommendations.- 1 Convergence Platforms: Foundational Science and Technology Tools.- 2 Convergence Platforms: Human-Scale Convergence and the Quality of Life.- 3 Convergence Platforms: Earth-Scale Systems.- 4 Methods to Improve and Expedite Convergence.- 5 Implications: Human Health and Physical Potential.- 6 Implications: Human Cognition and Communication and the Emergence of Cognitive Society.- 7 Implications: Societal Collective Outcomes, including Manufacturing.- 8 Implications: People and Physical Infrastructure.- 9 Implications: Convergence of Knowledge and Technology for a Sustainable Society.- 10 Innovative and Responsible Governance of Converging Technologies.- Appendices A - H.
Dr. Mihail C. Roco is the Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the
National Science Foundation (NSF) and a key architect of the
National Nanotechnology Initiative. Dr. Roco is the founding Chair
of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee
on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET) and
established the Nanotechnology Group of the International Risk
Governance Council. Prior to joining National Science Foundation,
he was Professor of mechanical and chemical engineering. Dr. Roco
is credited with thirteen patents and has contributed over two
hundred archival articles in sixteen books including recently
'Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cognition Innovations' (2007) and 'Mapping
Nanotechnology Knowledge and Innovation: Global and Longitudinal
Patent and Literature Analysis' (2009). Dr. Roco is a corresponding
member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and a member of
the International Risk Governance Council. His research included
experimental and simulation methods to investigate nanosystems. He
formally proposed the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in a
presentation at The White House OSTP, Committee on Technology, on
March 11, 1999. He conducted research, teaching, consulting to
industry, and international organizations in the Americas, Europe,
Japan, and Australia. He is a Fellow of ASME, Fellow of AIChE and
Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He was elected Engineer of the
Year by the U.S. Society of Professional Engineers and NSF in 1999
and again in 2004. He was honored as recipient of the Carl Duisberg
Award in Germany, the 'Burgers Professorship Award'
in The Netherlands, and the 'University Research
Professorship' and Fingerson/TSI awards in the U.S. He received the
National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of
Materials Societies in 2007 as 'the individual most responsible for
support and investment in nanotechnology by government, industry,
and academia worldwide'.
William SimsBainbridge is an American sociologist who currently
resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing
at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the first Senior
Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging
Technologies. Professor Bainbridge is most well known for his work
on the sociology of religion. He has published extensively on the
sociology of computer gaming, and he has pioneered the use of
online virtual worlds for scientific conferences and research
proposal review panels. He has edited two major reference works
relevant to NBIC, The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
and Leadership in Science and Technology. His doctoral research and
first book concerned the social movement dedicated to exploration
of outer space, and he has returned to that topic for the book he
is currently writing, examining the social and intellectual
barriers to future progress in that direction.
Bruce Tonn, is a professor at the University of Tennesee.
Dr. Tonn's research focuses on environmental and energy policy,
futures studies, sustainability, and policy decision making
methods. It also includes uncertainty methods, technology
policy, computers in society, and social theory.
George Whitesides, is a Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at
Harvard University. His research interests are: physical and
organic chemistry, materials science, biophysics, complexity and
emergence, surface science, microfluidics, optics, self-assembly,
micro- and nanotechnology, science for developing economies,
catalysis, energy production and conservation, origin of life,
rational drug design, cell-surface biochemistry, simplicity, and
infochemistry.
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