| Executive Summary | p. ix |
| Overview | p. 1 |
| Background | p. 1 |
| Timely and Broad Opportunity | p. 2 |
| Vision for Enhancing Human Abilities and Societal Performance | p. 4 |
| Strategies for Transformation | p. 7 |
| Towards Unifying Science and Converging Technology | p. 10 |
| Major Themes | p. 13 |
| Future Prospects | p. 16 |
| Recommendations | p. 22 |
| General Statements and Visionary Projects | p. 29 |
| Motivation and Outlook | p. 29 |
| Theme A Summary | p. 29 |
| Statements | |
| National Strategy towards Converging Science and Technology | p. 31 |
| Converging Technologies and Competitiveness | p. 33 |
| Vision for the Converging Technologies | p. 36 |
| Zone of Convergence Between Bio/Info/Nano Technologies: NASA's Nanotechnology Initiative | p. 55 |
| Biomedicine Eyes 2020 | p. 60 |
| Balancing Opportunities and Investments for NBIC | p. 67 |
| The Impact of Convergent Technologies and the Future of Business and the Economy | p. 71 |
| Coherence and Divergence of Megatrends in Science and Engineering | p. 79 |
| Expanding Human Cognition and Communication | p. 97 |
| Theme B Summary | p. 97 |
| Statements | |
| NBICS (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno-Socio) Convergence to Improve Human Performance: Opportunities and Challenges | p. 101 |
| Sensor System Engineering Insights on Improving Human Cognition and Communication | p. 117 |
| Can Nanotechnology Dramatically Affect the Architecture of Future Communications Networks? | p. 120 |
| Spatial Cognition and Converging Technologies | p. 122 |
| Visual Language and Converging Technologies in the Next 10-15 Years (and Beyond) | p. 141 |
| Sociable Technologies: Enhancing Human Performance when the computer is not a tool but a companion | p. 150 |
| Visionary Projects | |
| Socio-tech: the Predictive Science of Societal Behavior | p. 158 |
| Breaking the Limits on Design Complexity | p. 161 |
| Enhancing Personal Area Sensory and Social Communication Through Converging Technologies | p. 164 |
| The Consequences of Fully Understanding the Brain | p. 166 |
| User-Interface Olympics: Using Competition to Drive Innovation | p. 170 |
| Accelerating Convergence of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Information Technology | p. 174 |
| Improving Human Health and Physical Capabilities | p. 179 |
| Theme C Summary | p. 179 |
| Statements | |
| Nanobiotechnology and Life Extension | p. 182 |
| The Nano-Bio Connection and Its Implication for Human Performance | p. 191 |
| Gene Therapy: Reinventing the Wheel or Useful Adjunct to Existing Paradigms? | p. 194 |
| Implications of the Continuum of Bioinformatics | p. 207 |
| Sensory replacement and sensory substitution: Overview and prospects for the future | p. 213 |
| Vision Statement: Interacting Brain | p. 224 |
| Focusing the possibilities of Nanotechnology for Cognitive Evolution and Human Performance | p. 227 |
| Science and Technology and the Triple D (Disease, Disability, Defect) | p. 232 |
| Visionary Projects | |
| Brain-Machine Interface via a Neurovascular Approach | p. 244 |
| Human-Machine Interaction: Potential Impact of Nanotechnology in the Design of Neuroprosthetic Devices Aimed at Restoring or Augmenting Human Performance | p. 251 |
| Nanotechnology: The Merging of Diagnostics and Treatment | p. 255 |
| Artificial Brains and Natural Intelligence | p. 256 |
| Converging Technologies for Physiological Self-regulation | p. 260 |
| Improving Quality of Life of Disabled People using Converging Technologies | p. 270 |
| Enhancing Group and Societal Outcomes | p. 275 |
| Theme D Summary | p. 275 |
| Statements | |
| Cognition, Social Interaction, Communication and Convergent Technologies | p. 277 |
| Engineering the Science of Cognition to Enhance Human Performance | p. 281 |
| Engineering of Mind for Enhancing Human Productivity | p. 281 |
| Making Sense of the World: Convergent Technologies for Environmental Science | p. 294 |
| Fundamentally New Manufacturing Processes and Products | p. 300 |
| Visionary Projects | |
| The Communicator: Enhancement of Group Communication, Efficiency and Creativity | p. 302 |
| Enhanced Knowledge-Based Human Organization and Social Change | p. 307 |
| A Vision for the Aircraft of the 21st Century | p. 313 |
| Memetics: A Potential New Science | p. 318 |
| National Security | p. 327 |
| Theme E Summary | p. 327 |
| Statements | |
| Cognitive Readiness: An Important Research Focus for National Security | p. 330 |
| DARPA's Programs in Enhancing Human Performance | p. 337 |
| NBIC for Homeland Defense: Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Explosive (CBRE) Detection/Protection | p. 341 |
| Future Roles for Science and Technology in Counterterrorism | p. 344 |
| Nanotechnology and the Department of Defense | p. 349 |
| Advanced Military Education and Training | p. 351 |
| Visionary Projects | |
| High-performance Warfighter | p. 352 |
| Non-Drug Treatments for Enhancement of Human Performance | p. 355 |
| Brain-Machine Interface | p. 357 |
| Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno as Enabling Technology for Uninhabited Combat Vehicles | p. 359 |
| Data Linkage and Threat Anticipation Tool | p. 361 |
| Unifying Science and Education | p. 363 |
| Theme F Summary | p. 363 |
| Statements | |
| Combining the Social and the Nanotech: A Model for Converging Technologies | p. 367 |
| Breadth, Depth and Academic Nano-Niches | p. 373 |
| Unifying Principles in Complex Systems | p. 380 |
| Mind Over Matter in an Era of Convergent Technologies | p. 410 |
| Converging Technology and Education for Improving Human Performance | p. 412 |
| Visionary Projects | |
| Converging Technologies: A K-12 Education Vision | p. 416 |
| Expanding the Trading Zones for Convergent Technologies | p. 424 |
| Biological Language Modeling: Convergence of computational linguistics and biological chemistry | p. 428 |
| Appendices | |
| List of Participants and Contributors | p. 439 |
| Index of Authors | p. 445 |
| Index of Topics | p. 457 |
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