News in a NanoSecond

Think nano has ethical problems? Just wrap your brain around neuro (By Zack Lynch for Small Times) What new tools to improve human performance will emerge from the convergence of nanotech, biotech, infotech and cognitive science? Speculating about potential NBIC applications is easy. Developing novel tools that solve real world problems remains hard. My goal is to explore the political and economic issues that might arise as these converging technologies make possible neurotechnology – tools that influence the brain. More NBIC Anxious About Transhumanism-Bashing from Xian Right (Cyborg Democracy) Jack Mason, reporting in Small Times on the recent Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) meetings in New York, notes the dramatic reaction of co-director Mihail Roco to Zack Lynch's panel which waxed poetic about the transhumanist implications of neuroceuticals. More Nothing for Nano? No! (Improbable Research) So far we have received no entries -- not a single one -- for our contest to choose the best limerick on the topic: Nanotechnology and Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano. More Nanotechnology and the Kingdom of God (pagittblog) Mercedes coating comes up to scratch (e4engineering.com) Discuss Great Mambo Chicken & the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality.