X-Message-Number: 20901
From: "MIKE TREDER" <>
Subject: Responsible Nanotechnology
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:48:29 -0500

A new non-profit organization has been formed to advance the safe use of 
molecular nanotechnology. The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  (CRN) 
was founded by Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder in December 2002. The vision of 
CRN is a world in which nanotechnology is widely used for productive and 
beneficial purposes, and where malicious uses are limited by effective 
administration of the technology.

CRN President Mike Treder, a business professional with a background in 
technology and communications company management, is both optimistic and 
cautious about the implications of advanced nanotechnology.  Since the 
1980 s, when Eric Drexler wrote Engines of Creation, many of us have dreamed 
of a world with cheap, non-polluting, innovative manufacturing capability,  
says Treder.  That dream is now within sight but so is the nightmare of 
accidental or deliberate misuse. 

Nanotechnology refers to the concept of building complicated machines out of 
precisely designed molecules. With devices only a few nanometers wide, it 
will become possible to build a supercomputer smaller than a grain of sand; 
a weapon smaller than a mosquito; a self-contained factory that sits on a 
kitchen counter.

Chris Phoenix, CRN s Director of Research, is an inventor, entrepreneur, and 
published author in the fields of nanomedicine, nanomanufacturing, and 
administration of nanotechnology.  We believe that even a technology as 
powerful as nanotechnology can be used wisely and well but that without 
adequate information, unwise use will be far too common,  says Phoenix.  The 
humanitarian potential is vast, and opportunities for economic benefit are 
astronomical, but so is the potential for abuse. 

In order to provide well-grounded and complete information, CRN is 
researching all the issues involved political, economic, military, 
humanitarian, and technological and will devise and present workable 
proposals.  We see our role primarily as educational,  says Phoenix.  The 
problems are large, but we are finding good solutions. The more we 
investigate, however, the more urgency we see. Practical molecular 
nanotechnology may not be far away and we must not be caught unprepared. 

 The potential dangers are ominous, and the possible benefits are enormous,  
says Treder.  The human race can t afford to do this wrong. 

The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology  is headquartered in New York. CRN 
is an affiliate of World Care , an international, non-profit, 501(c)3 
organization. For more information on CRN, see www.CRNano.org.


See you in the future!

Mike Treder, President
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

Director, Human Futures Institute
Executive Director, New York Transhumanist Association
Director, World Transhumanist Association
Founder, Incipient Posthuman (www.incipientposthuman.com)



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