Mike Treder

Mike Treder, your friendly weblog author, is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. Mike is a professional writer, speaker, and activist with a background in technology and communications company management. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Biology. Mike's career in the private sector included stints as manager of radio stations in major markets, and with a large telecommunications firm in New Jersey.

The co-founder and Director of Research for CRN is Chris Phoenix. Chris has studied nanotechnology for more than 15 years. He obtained his BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, he worked as an embedded software engineer at Electronics for Imaging. In 1997, he left the software field to concentrate on dyslexia correction and research. Since 2000 he has focused exclusively on studying and writing about molecular manufacturing. Chris is a published author in nanotechnology and nanomedical research, and maintains close contacts with many leading researchers in the field. Chris lives in Miami, Florida.

In addition to his work with CRN, Mike Treder is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a consultant to the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University and to the Future Technologies Advisory Group, serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Risks Council, is on the Nanotech Briefs Editorial Advisory Board and on the Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist Association, is a member of the Executive Advisory Team for the Extropy Institute, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of the World Future Society.

An accomplished presenter on the societal implications of emerging technologies, Mike has addressed conferences and groups in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and Brazil. He lives in New York City.

Mike also maintains a separate blog with his personal views on various subjects.