[][The NBIC Report] (click for full .pdf) was the published result of a U.S. government sponsored conference on converging technologies applicable to improving human performance: “The chief areas of application include: expanding human cognition and communication, improving human health and physical capabilities, enhancing group and societal outcomes, strengthening national security, and unifying science and education. Convergence will be based on the material unity of nature at the nanoscale, technology integration from the nanoscale, key transforming tools, the concept of reality as closely coupled hierarchical complex systems, and the goal to improve human performance.”

It was released in 2002, so those of you who are up-to-date on current research should skip ahead to the more current research articles I will post below. Everybody else, I highly recommend at least flipping through the table of contents and reading the more interesting articles, such as “Spatial Cognition and Converging Technologies”, “Sociable Technologies: Enhancing Human Performance When the Computer is not a Tool but a Companion”, and “Brain-Machine Interfacing”. Other papers included in the NBIC Report are borderline frightening, for instance, “High Performance Warfighter”, “DARPA’s Programs in Enhancing Human Performance”, or “Socio-Tech…The Predictive Science of Societal Behavior” and its comments on government usage of using predictive sociological algorithms to stop “terrorism” before it occurs. Obviously, it is extremely important for us radically-minded anti-government individuals to be well versed in current technological research: these are the tools which will be used to subjugate us tomorrow. If we learn about them now, we may influence their usage and possibly even effectively use them for positive change.

More information and current research articles after the jump!

Now that you’re busy with that 482-page monster of a pdf, here’s some more recent research. I realize I might get in trouble for this, so I’m going to say in advance: “Oops, sorry, I didn’t realize these were copyrighted.” I have the privilege of research access to numerous academic journals, and, unfortunately for the publishers, I do not believe that only those with disposable finances should have access to knowledge and educational materials. So here you go, read up!

Also, in keeping with the topic, I would highly recommend listening to opera while reading this stuff. Or Wagner. I’m kidding, I think.

Bioinformatics(click for downloadable .pdfs)

[(2010) Bioinformatic and experimental survey of 14-3-3-binding sites]

(2010) Bioinformatic workflow system for large data sets

[(2010) Functional Impact of Transposable Elements Using Bioinformatic Analysis]

(2010) GMOD Drupal Bioinformatics Server

Implants and Prosthetics (click for downloadable .pdfs)

(2009) Feasibility Study of a Retinal Prosthesis

Nanotechnology (click for downloadable .pdfs)

(2010) MEMS, Sensors, and Nanotechnology

(2010) Responsibility and Nanotechnology

(2010) Nanotechnology in textiles

(2010) Nanotechnology: Molecular robots on the move

(2010) New Products: Focus on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

(2010) Nanotechnology and its applications in surgery

(2010) Nanotechnology Makes Strides in Quantum Dots, Medicine

[(2010) Nanotechnology, Bionanotechnology and Microbial Cell Factories]

[(2010) Research Advances: Nanotechnology Research Attacks Cancer, Offers Big Development in Light Harvesting, and Addresses the 3Rs: Recover, Recycle, and Reuse]

[(2009) The University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology]

[(2009) Combining Instrumental and Contextual Approaches: Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development]

(2009) Quantum Nanotechnology

Cognitive Science and Brain-Computer Interfacing (click for .pdfs)

(2008) Neurocomputing: On linking human and machine brains

[(2009) A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part I: Large-scale brain simulations]

[(2009) A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part II: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures]

(2009) A neural mechanism for human language processing

[(2009) Sentence generation for artificial brains: A glocal similarity-matching approach]

(2009) Anthony Chemero: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

(2010) Emergence and reduction in dynamical cognitive science

(2010) Developing Creativity: Artificial Barriers in Artificial Intelligence

[]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/nbic.jpg [(2010) Bioinformatic and experimental survey of 14-3-3-binding sites]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-Bioinformatic-and-experimental-survey-of-14-3-3-binding-sites.pdf

[(2010) Functional Impact of Transposable Elements Using Bioinformatic Analysis]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-Functional-Impact-of-Transposable-Elements-Using-Bioinformatic-Analysis.pdf

[(2010) Nanotechnology, Bionanotechnology and Microbial Cell Factories]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-Nanotechnology-Bionanotechnology-and-Microbial-Cell-Factories.pdf [(2010) Research Advances: Nanotechnology Research Attacks Cancer, Offers Big Development in Light Harvesting, and Addresses the 3Rs: Recover, Recycle, and Reuse]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-Research-Advances_Nanotechnology-Research-Attacks-Cancer-Offers-Big-Development-in-Light-Harvesting-and-Addresses-the-3Rs_Recover-Recycle-and-Reuse.pdf [(2009) The University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2009-The-University-of-California-Center-for-the-Environmental-Implications-of-Nanotechnology.pdf [(2009) Combining Instrumental and Contextual Approaches: Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2009-Combining-Instrumental-and-Contextual-Approaches_Nanotechnology-and-Sustainable-Development.pdf

[(2009) A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part I: Large-scale brain simulations]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2009-A-world-survey-of-artificial-brain-projects-Part1_Large-scale-brain-simulations.pdf [(2009) A world survey of artificial brain projects, Part II: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2009-A-world-survey-of-artificial-brain-projects-Part-II_Biologically-inspired-cognitive-architectures.pdf

[(2009) Sentence generation for artificial brains: A glocal similarity-matching approach]: http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2009-Sentence-generation-for-artificial-brains_A-glocal-similarity-matching-approach.pdf