Redesigning Worldwide Connections / edited by Michele Bonazzi and Valentina Di Simone.

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World Complexity Science Academy. Annual Conference (4th : 2013 : Tenerife)

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TextSeries: World Complexity Science Academy Book SeriesPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9781443887731
1443887730

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303.483 23

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Summary: In the next twenty years, the convergence of robotics, informatics, nano-bio-technologies, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society. This convergence will lead to a revolution in the way that science, health, energy, resources, production, consumption and environment are conceptualised. However, these technologies will also pose new and specific challenges in terms of sustainability, ethics, and even expectations of the future. Indeed, today, the word "future" is often associated with pessimism and fear, much more than it was in the p.

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In the next twenty years, the convergence of robotics, informatics, nano-bio-technologies, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society. This convergence will lead to a revolution in the way that science, health, energy, resources, production, consumption and environment are conceptualised. However, these technologies will also pose new and specific challenges in terms of sustainability, ethics, and even expectations of the future. Indeed, today, the word "future" is often associated with pessimism and fear, much more than it was in the p.

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