CTF Essays, Group 2

Here's a little teaser for the next group of nanotechnology essays from members of CRN's Global Task Force...

Nanoethics and Technological Revolutions: A Précis - Nick Bostrom

From The Enlightenment to N-Lightenment - Michael Buerger

What Price Freedom? - Robert A. Freitas Jr.

The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance - Steve Burgess

Economic Impact of the Personal Nanofactory - Robert A. Freitas Jr.

Corporate Cornucopia - Michael Vassar

Molecular Manufacturing and the Developing World: Looking to Nanotechnology For Answers - Don Maclurcan

Considering Military Implications of Nanofactory-level Nanotechnology - Brian Wang

Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science - Deborah Osborne

Safer Molecular Manufacturing Through Nanoblocks - Tom Craver

Are We Enlightened Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans? - Douglas Mulhall

Covering topics from commerce to criminology, from ethics to economics, and from our remote past to our distant future, this new collection illustrates the profound transformation that nanotechnology will have on every aspect of human society.

It's been a great experience for us to work closely with and learn from them such knowledgeable authors. We're excited about the opportunity of presenting these essays to you in the next issue of Nanotechnology Perceptions. That issue is due on May 8, and, as before, we will post the essays online at KurzweilAI.net and at Wise-Nano.org.

Mike Treder

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Comments

[Phillip Huggan]

I am confused where to post my comments about theses essays. I read all of the first batch. They were interesting and I had some comments. But I'm not gonna cross-post to wise-nano, CRN, and KurzweilAI.

[Mike Treder, CRN]

Phillip, good question...

For comments on the essays as a whole, please post them on this blog.

For comments on individual essays, our preference is that you post them on the KurzweilAI discussion board associated with each essay.

To propose additions or revisions to the text of an essay, or to make other suggestions to the essay author, please use Wise-Nano.

An easy link to Kurzweil and Wise-Nano essay locations is here.

[Jan-Willem Bats]

I'm looking forward to ideas on the needed new economy.

Wikipedia tells me that abundance economies usually maintain artificial scarcity.

I sure hope that, if we turn out to do that, life will still become cheaper than it is now.

I don't feel like working my butt off for decades to achieve financial independance. I'd rather have it a little sooner than that.