NBIC: Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno

There's no one silver bullet technology that's going to make us all into superbeings. The trick is in the mix of different technologies. NBIC stands for nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science.

Look at it this way: with nanotechnology and biotechnology, we stand to gain control over inorganic and organic matter. With advanced information technology, we get not just the horrendous data glut that's now tormenting us (and our National Security Agency), but data that's shaped, analyzed, and made useful by productive machines that can then act on the data. With cognitive science, we get the maximum use of that thing inside our heads that is allowing me to produce and you to consume these half-baked thoughts.

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Here's a brief summary of the NBIC technologies:

Nanotechnology: Technology related to features of nanometer scale (ten meters), including thin films, fine particles, chemical synthesis, advanced microlithography, and so forth.
Biotechnology: The application of science and engineering to the direct or indirect use of livingorganisms, or parts or products of living organisms, in their natural or modified forms.
Information technology: Applied computer systems, both hardware and software, including networking and telecommunications.
Cognitive science: The study of intelligence and intelligent systems, particularly intelligent behavior as computation.

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Folksonomies: futurism technology transhumanism

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Transcendence

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Sirius, R.U. and Cornell, Jay (2015-01-01), Transcendence, Red Wheel Weiser, Retrieved on 2015-01-25

Source Material [books.google.com]

Folksonomies: science futurism transhumanism

Schemas

22 FEB 2015

Transhumanism

From our current human state of being to the transhuman future and the many species of posthuman our children may become.

Folksonomies: transhumanism posthumanism