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Corporate author / creator:	World Complexity Science Academy. Annual Conference (4th : 2013 : Tenerife)
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	World Complexity Science Academy Book Series World Complexity Science Academy Book Series.
Subject:	Technological innovations -- Social aspects. Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909291

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Other authors / contributors:	Bonazzi, Michele, editor. Di Simone, Valentina, editor.
ISBN:	9781443887731 1443887730 9781443883801 1443883808 1443887730
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	1-4438-8380-8

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