[extropy-chat] NBIC's effects on biology and medicine

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Future Brief has an interesting short
article<http://www.futurebrief.com/jeffharrowcircle019.asp>by Jeffrey
R. Harrow <http://www.theharrowgroup.com/> on the future of converging 
technologies. NBIC (the coming together of the previously disparate fields 
of Nanotechnology, Biology & medicine, Information sciences, and Cognitive 
sciences) is already bringing fascinating new things to light. As we further 
illuminate the nanoworld we may find that it is NBIC's effects on biology 
and medicine that will yield the most extraordinary insights and 
capabilities of all. Examples:
nanowires<http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050623_125410.html>,
viral cameras <http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994615>.
Harrow shows how simultaneous advances in NBIC disciplines produce positive 
feedback loops to facilitate more and more advances with exponential speed 
(" The Incestuous Technology Circle"). He also thinks cross-discipline 
"renaissance people" should be encouraged:
"This is why I'm so convinced that the most interesting and useful advances 
to be made in the foreseeable future will not come from a single field of 
endeavor (as has often been the case in the past), but will come from the 
knowledge we gain from the Convergence of many fields such as *N*anotechnology, 
*B*iology, *I*nformation sciences, and *C*ognitive sciences (NBIC)".
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