Daniel Sarewitz

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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
August 24, 2006
Daniel Sarewitz CNS Associate Director RTTA 3
Team Leader
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development

• Daniel Sarewitz
• Cynthia Selin
• Ira Bennett
• Brian Young

Team Members
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• To develop multiple, plausible visions of
  nanotechnology enabled futures, elucidate public
  preferences for various alternatives and using
  such preferences, help further refine future
  visions and enhance contextual awareness.

RTTA 3 Scenario Development
RTTA 3 Goals
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development

• Themes
• Freedom, Privacy and Security
• Human Identity, Enhancement
• and Biology

Implantable chips to relay stored or beamed
information directly into the brain.
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
Theme Human Identity, Enhancement and Biology
Computer processors built of neurons that are
wired with nano-scale transistors.
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
Theme Freedom, Privacy and Security
Bar-less prisons that use nano-scale drug
distribution systems, set in prisoners bodies
and triggered by radio frequencies, to
incapacitate potential escapees.
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
Theme Freedom, Privacy and Security
Nano-scale tagents to stick to, label, and
track anything and any exposure situation.
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Oxford Collaboration
RTTA 3 Scenario Development
RTTA 1
Scenarios
RTTA 2
How do the Scenarios connect to other programs in
CNS?
RTTA 3 Wikis
RTTA 3 InnovationSpace
RTTA 3 National Citizens Technology Forum
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RTTA 3 Scenario Development
Experts Wiki
Public Wiki
Selected Audiences e.g. Spanish Language Wiki
Scenario Wikis
Policy-elite Wiki
Vision and technical Database