The Speculist

We missed the first wave of essays from the CRN task force on nanotechnology, but we won't make that mistake twice. The complete set of essays, new and old, are listed here:

• Introduction to the first issue
• Kurzweil, Ray - "Nanotechnology Dangers and Defenses"
• Freitas, Robert A. Jr. - "Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow?" (summary)
• Treder, Mike - "Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel"
• Cowper, Tom - "Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing"
• Phoenix, Chris - "The Need For Limits"
• Prisco, Giulio - "Globalization and Open Source Nano Economy"
• Broderick, Damien - "Cultural Dominants and Differential MNT Uptake"
• Lin, Patrick & Allhoff, Fritz - "Nanoethics and Human Enhancement"
• Vita-More, Natasha - "Strategic Sustainable Brain"
• Hall, J. Storrs - "Is AI Near a Takeoff Point?"
• Brin, David - "Singularities and Nightmares: The Range of Our Futures"

• Introduction to the second issue
• Bostrom, Nick - "Nanoethics and Technological Revolutions: A Précis"
• Buerger, Michael - "From The Enlightenment to N-Lightenment"
• Freitas, Robert A. Jr. - "What Price Freedom?" (summary)
• Burgess, Steve - "The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance"
• Freitas, Robert A. Jr. - "Economic Impact of the Personal Nanofactory" (summary)
• Vassar, Michael - "Corporate Cornucopia: Examining the Special Implications of Commercial MNT Development"
• Maclurcan, Don - "Molecular Manufacturing and the Developing World: Looking to Nanotechnology for Answers"
• Wang, Brian "Considering Military and Ethical Implications of Nanofactory-level Nanotechnology"
• Osborne, Deborah - "Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science"
• Craver, Tom - "Safer Molecular Manufacturing Through Nanoblocks"
• Mulhall, Douglas - "Are We Guardians, Or Are We Apes Designing Humans?"

Or find them all here.