Emerging And Acronyms Technologies

Emerging technologies

Many writers, including , have identified clusters of technologies that they consider critical to humanity's future.^[2] Advocates of the benefits of typically see emerging and converging technologies as offering hope for the betterment of the human condition. However, critics of the risks of technological change, and even some advocates such as philosopher , warn that some of these technologies could pose dangers, perhaps even contribute to the itself; i.e., some of them could involve

Much centers on issues of in allocating access to beneficial forms of technology. Some thinkers, such as, oppose the continuing development of advanced technology partly out of fear that its benefits will be distributed unequally in ways that could worsen the plight of the poor.^[5] By contrast, inventor Ray Kurzweil is among techno-utopians who believe that emerging and converging technologies could and will do.

Acronyms

NBIC, an acronym standing for, is currently the most popular term for emerging and converging technologies, and was introduced into public discourse through the publication of , a report sponsored in part by the U.S. National

Various other acronyms have been offered for essentially the same concept such as GNR (Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robotics). Journalist : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human uses "GRIN", for Genetic, Robotic, Information, and Nano processes, while science journalist Douglas Mulhall in Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World uses "GRAIN", for Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Nanotechnology.Another acronym coined by the is "BANG" for "