Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing, Volume 1093

Part I: Perspectives on Convergence.

1. Progress in Governance of Converging Technologies (Mihail C. Roco).

2. Transformative Concepts in Scientific Convergence (William Sims Bainbridge).

3. Consillence and Convergence: The Ideas of E. O. Wilson (Ullica Segerstrale).

4. "Converging Technologies in Higher Education: A Paradigm for the “New” Liberal Arts?" (Robert T. Balmer).

Part II: Nano-Bio-Info Technology.

5. Biomimetic Nanotechnology (Osamu Takai).

6. Signal-Transducing Proteins for Nanoelectronics (Fabio Pichierri).

7. The Case for Nanogeoscience (Michael F. Hochella, Jr).

8. Nano-bio Convergence at the Molecular Level (Chih-Ming Ho and Jia Ming Chen 9. Three Levels of Neuroelectronic Interfacing: Silicon Chips with Icon Channels, Nerve Cells and Brain Tissue: Peter Fromherz).

Part III: Informatics for Convergence.

10. Designing Highly Flexible and Usable Cyberinfrastructures for Convergence (Bruce Herr, Weixia Huang, Shashikant Penumarthy, Katy Börner).

11. The Problem of Patent Thickets in Convergent Technologies (Gavin Clarkson and David DeKorte).

Part IV: Cognitive Enhancement.

12. Converging Cognitive Enhancements (Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom).

13. Affective Computing: Bio-Info-Cogno Convergence (Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard).

14. Building Personal Maps from GPS Data (Lin Liao, Donald J. Patterson, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz).

15. Embodiment Awareness, Mathematics Discourse, and the Blind (Frances Quek and David McNeill).

Part V: Social and Ethical Implications.

16. Nanotechnology and the Human Future: Policy, Ethics, and Risk (Nigel M. de S. Cameron).

17. Rethinking Enhancement in Sport (Andy Miah).

18. Justice, Fairness and Enhancement (Julian Savulescu).

19. Regulation: The Threat To Converging Technologies (Alan S. Ziegler).

Appendices.

APPENDEX I: Glossary of Convergence (The Editors).

APPENDIX II: Annotated Convergence Bibliography (William Sims Bainbridge).