You are invited to participate in a two-week-long cyberconference, starting on May 7th, on the 'converging technologies' research agenda that has become prominent in recent years in science policy circles around the world. By 'converging technologies' is meant the channelling of research funding in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science into an interdisciplinary framework that can be used to enhance human performance and welfare.

The cyberconference is organized around a series of opening statements to which anyone may respond. Generally speaking, the statements relate to our understanding of the current state of research vis-à-vis future prospects. Any comments made in the cyberconference are in the public domain and will be archived for research purposes. Consequently participants’ comments will be monitored for civility. However, participants are also encouraged to hyperlink relevant resources to support their opinions.

Please choose your language:

english | german | french | spanish | polish | chinese (traditional) | chinese (simplified)

We would appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes to answer a short survey.

The ultimate aim of the cyberconference is to provide a public airing of reasoned global opinion on the future of humanity in light of a quickly shifting research frontier.

On May 15, we had a 2 our long online discussion. To read the protocol klick here.

This project is sponsored by the European Union, under its Sixth Framework Research Programme, 'Knowledge Politics and New Converging Technologies'. For more information about the programme, see www.converging-technologies.org.