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Impact of new technologies goes far, far beyond IT

Information technologies have visibly changed society during the last decadeand will create even more fundamental changes in the coming years. There arehowever new area's of technological innovation that will generate even morefundamental changes in the way we live. Bio-technologies and bionics have thepotential to change our healty lifespan and the perception of what 'healty'means anyway. Nanotechnology is an exploding field of research that attemptsto create the abilty to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to creatematerials and electromechanical systems. These systems and materials combinethe best properties of living systems and classical technologies.Nanotechnology has the potential to do for the material world what Internethas done for information; the end of scarcity.

The combinations of these three domains of R&D will have many consequencesthat need to be discussed by as many informed people as possible.

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Short flash intro of some of the concepts:http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/alacite/expo/tempo/defis/recit1/clipfinal2.swfExample presentation of 12-2004:http://www.toestroom.nl/download/SYNACTIONFUTURESKERST23.PDF

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• Arjen Kamphuis

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