Nigel Cameron - CEO C-PET & Recovering Academic
CEO C-PET & Recovering Academic
Nigel is President and CEO of Washington DC’s first independent think tank on science and technology policy - or the lack thereof - at the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies. (C PET) where, in short, he stirs the hornet's nest to get people thinking!
Until 2008, he was Research Professor and Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society. In 2003 he co-founded the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future.
He has served on the advisory boards of Nanotechnology Law and Business, the Converging Technologies Bar Association, and the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, and represented the United States on delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO, UN Human Rights Council as Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health.
He edited Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (2007); other books include The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates (1991).
He has been a visiting scholar at UBS Wolfsberg in Switzerland, and was a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival , Global Health Forum and the Swiss STARS conference for young leaders.
Watch Nigel Cameron's session at Amplify '11 below.
Links
Nigel talking on 'Science Vs The Biological Clock
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (2007)
The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates (1991)
COMMENTS
Who Wants To Live Forever? The Future Of Humanity & Other Interesting Conundrums
This speaker is scheduled to perform on:
6 - 10 June
Emerging technologies are challenging the very essence of humanity. Our relationships with each other, our bodies, with medicine, privacy, security, ethics, trust, policy, and even government are increasingly in the hands of technology. And the technology is in the hands of innovators, entrepreneurs, decision takers, policy makers, legislators, artists and even villains - all of whom will ultimately decide how's it used, abused or confused.
Who can we trust? Are we ready and informed enough? Will the convergence of nano, medicine, bio-engineering and information tech really result in improved medicines, genetic advancements and augmented bodies? Can we radically postpone ageing, retirement, achieve radical longevity and the immortality that TIME magazine promises by 2045?
Nigel will unpack the impact of these trends on our wellbeing, our society and the very essence of humanity, and discuss both the risks of ignorance and lagging legislation, as well as the opportunities for innovation and a better tomorrow - with specific reference to a business like AMP.