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Nanomedical Device and Systems Design: Challenges, Possibilities, Visions

May 1, 2013

Nanomedical Device and Systems Design

author |
Frank Boehm
year published |
2013

This unique book addresses issues pertaining to nanomedical devices and systems design in terms of challenges, possibilities, and future vision. It examines what it takes to design, fabricate, and functionalize autonomous micron-scale, robotic medical devices (having nanometric-scale components) and what perceived hurdles must be overcome to foster their development and implementation. The book investigates device deployment and recovery strategies, as well as protocols for their safe and failsafe operation… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Biomed/Longevity

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Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

April 9, 2009

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author |
K. Eric Drexler
year published |
1992

Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: power and strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century of engineering.” — Marvin Minsky MIT.

Science magazine calls Eric Drexler “Mr. Nanotechnology.” For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by… read more

Topics: Nanotech/Materials Science | Quantum

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Nanotechnology Commercialization for Managers and Scientists

March 19, 2012

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author |
Wim Helwegen, Luca Escoffier
year published |
2012

The nanotechnology industry is a fast growing industry with many unique characteristics. When bringing the results of nanotechnology research to the market, companies and universities run into unforeseen problems related to intellectual property rights and other legal and regulatory issues.

An effective commercialization of the results of research requires basic knowledge of the relevant issues and a well-defined strategy, while the absence of such knowledge and strategy can be… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

May 8, 2013

Natural Born Cyborgs

author |
Andy Clark
year published |
2003

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared–we already are cyborgs.

In Natural-Born Cyborgs, Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures | Telepresence/Telemedicine/Online Education

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Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems

May 4, 2012

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author |
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
year published |
2012

Amazon | Over the past few decades, globalization and Googlization have kicked off the first phase of an innovation revolution more profound and more powerful than any economic force since the arrival of Europeans on North American shores half a millennium ago. These developments have brought us such advances as the Web, social networking, 24/7 connectivity, and global markets.

But the benefits of all this progress have not… read more

Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online

April 30, 2012

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author |
Howard Rheingold
year published |
2012

Amazon | Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | Social Networking/Web

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Networks of the Brain

April 9, 2012

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author |
Olaf Sporns
year published |
2010

Amazon | Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior, and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. Modern network approaches are beginning to reveal fundamental principles of brain architecture and function, and in Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporns describes how the integrative nature of brain function can be illuminated from a… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Neural Networks and Analog Computation: Beyond the Turing Limit

April 9, 2012

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author |
Hava T. Siegelmann
year published |
1998

Amazon | The theoretical foundations of Neural Networks and Analog Computation conceptualize neural networks as a particular type of computer consisting of multiple assemblies of basic processors interconnected in an intricate structure. Examining these networks under various resource constraints reveals a continuum of computational devices, several of which coincide with well-known classical models. On a mathematical level, the treatment of neural computations enriches the theory of computation but also… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Computers/Infotech/UI

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Neuromancer

July 29, 2012

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author |
William Gibson
year published |
1986

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace…

Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Computers/Infotech/UI | Singularity/Futures | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense

August 22, 2014

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author |
James Giordano
year published |
2014

Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns is the second volume in the Advances in Neurotechnology series. It specifically addresses the neuroethical, legal, and social issues arising from the use of neurotechnology in national security and defense agendas and applications.

Of particular concern are the use of various neurotechnologies in military and intelligence operations training, acquisition of neurobiological and cognitive data for intelligence… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Survival/Defense

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Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

January 7, 2014

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author |
Ray Jayawardhana
year published |
2013

A Publisher’s Weekly Best Science Book of the Season

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

A Book to Watch Out For in December, The New Yorker’s Page—Turner Blog

A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide Selection

One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific American

Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology

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New Model Army

July 18, 2012

New-Model-Army

author |
Adam Roberts
year published |
2010

A nightmarish vision of future war from a literary master of SF.

Adam Roberts’ new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war—a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the worlds first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be.

Taking advances in modern communication and the new eagerness for power… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal | Survival/Defense

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Nexus

December 18, 2012

Nexus

author |
Ramez Naam
year published |
2012


In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. There’s more to Nexus than meets the eye.

When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Social/Ethical/Legal

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No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale

August 17, 2012

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author |
Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides
year published |
2009

A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can’t see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. An introduction to the science and technology of small things, No Small Matter explains science on the nanoscale.

Authors Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides offer an overview of recent scientific advances… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Computers/Infotech/UI | Nanotech/Materials Science | Physics/Cosmology

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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

October 26, 2012

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author |
Robert Wright
year published |
2001

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.

In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike… read more

Topics: Human Enhancement | Singularity/Futures | Social/Ethical/Legal

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