Designing the future: NBIC technologies and human performance enhancement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1013, Issue , 2004, Pages 186-198

  Canton, James ^a  

^a Institute for Global Futures   (United States)

Author keywords

Business perspective; Forecast; Human evolution; Technology conversion

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPETITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MANAGEMENT; MARKET; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; POLICY; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 2942609813     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1305.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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