Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, & Cognitive Science

June 2002 "The phrase convergent technologies refers to the synergistic combination of four major NBIC (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: Nanoscience and nanotechnology Biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering Information technology, including advanced computing and communications Cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience" "Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale. The building blocks of matter that are fundamental to all sciences originate at the nanoscale. Revolutionary advances at the interfaces between previously separate fields of science . . .