Speed & Access ~ IEET's Treder on Tech Ethics...

Nice piece by the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (IEET) Managing Director Mike Treder on Technoprogressives and Transhumanists: What’s the difference? where he makes the case for safe, responsible, cautious, and widely accessible development of Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) technologies (the Blue Star in his chart below). But he yells at people like me who are willing to push harder and sooner for new technologies and think it is fine that in the early days such technologies are only available to the rich (the Red Dot). I think it's mostly a question of timing and can be left to the market forces of supply and demand, especially since most historical inventions of note began for the wealthy few and then later spread to the rest of us -- e.g. books, steel, autos, planes, etc. On the other hand, we both differ from the yellow luddites in the lower left...