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Executive Summary | |
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Overview | |
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Background | |
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Timely and Broad Opportunity | |
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Vision for Enhancing Human Abilities and Societal Performance | |
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Strategies for Transformation | |
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Towards Unifying Science and Converging Technology | |
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Major Themes | |
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Future Prospects | |
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Recommendations | |
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General Statements and Visionary Projects | |
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Motivation and Outlook | |
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Theme A Summary | |
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Statements | |
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National Strategy towards Converging Science and Technology | |
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Converging Technologies and Competitiveness | |
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Vision for the Converging Technologies | |
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Zone of Convergence Between Bio/Info/Nano Technologies: NASA's Nanotechnology Initiative | |
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Biomedicine Eyes 2020 | |
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Balancing Opportunities and Investments for NBIC | |
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The Impact of Convergent Technologies and the Future of Business and the Economy | |
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Coherence and Divergence of Megatrends in Science and Engineering | |
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Expanding Human Cognition and Communication | |
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Theme B Summary | |
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Statements | |
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NBICS (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno-Socio) Convergence to Improve Human Performance: Opportunities and Challenges | |
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Sensor System Engineering Insights on Improving Human Cognition and Communication | |
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Can Nanotechnology Dramatically Affect the Architecture of Future Communications Networks? | |
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Spatial Cognition and Converging Technologies | |
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Visual Language and Converging Technologies in the Next 10-15 Years (and Beyond) | |
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Sociable Technologies: Enhancing Human Performance when the computer is not a tool but a companion | |
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Visionary Projects | |
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Socio-tech: the Predictive Science of Societal Behavior | |
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Breaking the Limits on Design Complexity | |
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Enhancing Personal Area Sensory and Social Communication Through Converging Technologies | |
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The Consequences of Fully Understanding the Brain | |
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User-Interface Olympics: Using Competition to Drive Innovation | |
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Accelerating Convergence of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Information Technology | |
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Improving Human Health and Physical Capabilities | |
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Theme C Summary | |
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Statements | |
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Nanobiotechnology and Life Extension | |
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The Nano-Bio Connection and Its Implication for Human Performance | |
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Gene Therapy: Reinventing the Wheel or Useful Adjunct to Existing Paradigms? | |
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Implications of the Continuum of Bioinformatics | |
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Sensory replacement and sensory substitution: Overview and prospects for the future | |
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Vision Statement: Interacting Brain | |
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Focusing the possibilities of Nanotechnology for Cognitive Evolution and Human Performance | |
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Science and Technology and the Triple D (Disease, Disability, Defect) | |
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Visionary Projects | |
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Brain-Machine Interface via a Neurovascular Approach | |
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Human-Machine Interaction: Potential Impact of Nanotechnology in the Design of Neuroprosthetic Devices Aimed at Restoring or Augmenting Human Performance | |
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Nanotechnology: The Merging of Diagnostics and Treatment | |
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Artificial Brains and Natural Intelligence | |
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Converging Technologies for Physiological Self-regulation | |
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Improving Quality of Life of Disabled People using Converging Technologies | |
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Enhancing Group and Societal Outcomes | |
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Theme D Summary | |
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Cognition, Social Interaction, Communication and Convergent Technologies | |
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Engineering the Science of Cognition to Enhance Human Performance | |
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Engineering of Mind for Enhancing Human Productivity | |
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Making Sense of the World: Convergent Technologies for Environmental Science | |
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Fundamentally New Manufacturing Processes and Products | |
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Visionary Projects | |
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The Communicator: Enhancement of Group Communication, Efficiency and Creativity | |
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Enhanced Knowledge-Based Human Organization and Social Change | |
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A Vision for the Aircraft of the 21st Century | |
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Memetics: A Potential New Science | |
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National Security | |
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Theme E Summary | |
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Cognitive Readiness: An Important Research Focus for National Security | |
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DARPA's Programs in Enhancing Human Performance | |
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NBIC for Homeland Defense: Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Explosive (CBRE) Detection/Protection | |
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Future Roles for Science and Technology in Counterterrorism | |
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Nanotechnology and the Department of Defense | |
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Advanced Military Education and Training | |
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Visionary Projects | |
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High-performance Warfighter | |
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Non-Drug Treatments for Enhancement of Human Performance | |
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Brain-Machine Interface | |
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Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno as Enabling Technology for Uninhabited Combat Vehicles | |
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Data Linkage and Threat Anticipation Tool | |
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Unifying Science and Education | |
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Theme F Summary | |
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Combining the Social and the Nanotech: A Model for Converging Technologies | |
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Breadth, Depth and Academic Nano-Niches | |
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Unifying Principles in Complex Systems | |
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Mind Over Matter in an Era of Convergent Technologies | |
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Converging Technology and Education for Improving Human Performance | |
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Visionary Projects | |
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Converging Technologies: A K-12 Education Vision | |
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Expanding the Trading Zones for Convergent Technologies | |
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Biological Language Modeling: Convergence of computational linguistics and biological chemistry | |
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Appendices | |
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List of Participants and Contributors | |
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Index of Authors | |
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Index of Topics | |