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The Global Technology Revolution
Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015
By: Philip S. Anton, Richard Silberglitt, James Schneider
Full Document http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1307.pdf  
 
2005Beyond the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the past, a global technology revolution iscurrently changing the world. This book discusses the broad, multidisciplinary, and synergistictrends in this revolution, including genomics, cloning, biomedical engineering, smart materials,agile manufacturing, nanofabricated computation devices, and integrated microsystems.The revolution’s effects on human health may be the most startling as breakthroughs improve boththe quality and length of human life. Biotechnology will also enable us to identify, understand,manipulate, improve, and control living organisms (including ourselves). Information technology isalready revolutionizing our lives, especially in the developed world, and is a major enabler of othertrends. Materials technology will produce products, components, and systems that are smaller,smarter, multi-functional, environmentally compatible, more survivable, and customizable. Inaddition, smart materials, agile manufacturing, and nanotechnology will change the way weproduce devices and improve their capabilities. The technology revolution will not be uniform in itseffect across the globe but will play out differently depending on its acceptance, investment, and avariety of issues such as bioethics, privacy, economic disparity, cultural invasion, and socialreactions. There will be no turning back, however, since some societies will avail themselves of therevolution, and globalization will thus change the environment in which each society lives.
 
 
Contents
 
Preface Figures Tables Summary Acknowledgments Acronyms Chapter One: INTRODUCTION The Technology RevolutionApproachChapter Two: TECHNOLOGY TRENDS GenomicsTherapies and Drug DevelopmentBiomedical EngineeringThe Process of Materials EngineeringSmart MaterialsSelf-AssemblyRapid PrototypingBuildingsTransportationEnergy SystemsNew MaterialsNanomaterialsNanotechnologyIntegrated Microsystems and MEMSMolecular Manufacturing and NanorobotsChapter Three: DISCUSSION The Range of Possibilities by 2015Meta-Technology TrendsCross-Facilitation of Technology EffectsThe Highly Interactive Nature of Trend EffectsThe Technology RevolutionThe Technology Revolution and CultureConclusionsSuggestions for Further ReadingBibliography Back Cover Abstract 
 
The Global Technology RevolutionPreface
This work was sponsored by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to inform its publication of 
Global Trends 2015
(GT2015). GT2015 is a follow-on report to its 1996 document
Global Trends2010,
which identified key factors that appeared poised to shape the world by 2010.The NIC believed that various technologies (including information technology, biotechnology,nanotechnology (broadly defined), and materials technology) have the potential for significant anddominant global effects by 2015. The input presented in this report consists of a quick foresightinto global technology trends in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and materials technology and theirimplications for information technology and the world in 2015. It is intended to be helpful to abroad audience, including policymakers, intelligence community analysts, and the public at large.Supporting foresight and analysis on information technology was funded and reported separately(see Hundley, et al., 2000; Anderson et al., 2000 [212, 213]).This project was conducted in the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of RAND's NationalDefense Research Institute (NDRI). NDRI is a federally funded research and development centersponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the defense agencies, and theunified commands.The NIC provides mid-term and long-term strategic thinking and intelligence estimates for theDirector of Central Intelligence and key policymakers as they pursue shifting interests and foreignpolicy priorities.
 
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