Foreword: Ethical Choices in Nanotechnology Development (Mihail C. Roco).
 

I.  Introduction: The Nanotechnology Debate.

1.  Nanoscience and Nanoethics: Defining the Disciplines (Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff)

2.  Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us (Bill Joy).

3.  On the National Agenda: US Congressional Testimony on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology (Ray Kurzweil).
 

II.  Background: Nanotechnology in Context.

Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

4.  Nanotech's Promise: Overcoming Humanity's More Pressing Challenge (Christine Peterson and Jacob Heller).

5.  Debating Nanotechnologies (Richard A. L. Jones).

6.  In the Beginning: the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (Neal Lane and Thomas Kalil).

III.  Issues: Preparing for the Next Revolution.

Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

7.  The Nanotechnology R(evolution) (Charles Tahan).

8. Technology Revolutions and the Problem of Prediction (Nick Bostrom).

9. Complexity and Uncertainty: A Prudential Approach to Nanotechnology (Jean-Pierre Dupuy).

10. The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology (John Weckert and James Moor).
 

IV.  Issues: Health and Environment.

Unit Introduction (James Moor).

11. Nanotechnology and Risk: What are the Issues? (Anne Ingeborg Myhr and Roy Dalmo)

12. Personal Choice in the Coming Era of Nanomedicine (Robert A. Freitas).

13. Are We Playing God with Nano-Enhancement? (Ted Peters).

14. Anticipating the Political and Ethical Challenges of Human Nanotechnologies (David Guston, John Parsi, and Justin Tosi).
 

V. Issues: Democracy and Policy.

Unit Introduction (James Moor).

15. Global Technology Regulation and Potentially-Apocalyptic Technological Threats (James Hughes).

16. Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnology (Colin Farrelly).

17. Rhetoric of ‘Stakeholding’ (David Berube).

18. The Rules of Engagement: Dialogue and Democracy in Creating Nanotechnology Futures (James Wilsdon and Jack Stilgoe).
 

VI. Issues: Broader Societal Impact.

Unit Introduction (John Weckert).

19. Nanotechnology and Privacy: the Instructive Case of RFID (Jeroen van den Hoven).

20. Nanotechnology and the Military (Daniel Moore).

21. Can Nanoscience be a Catalyst for Educational Reform? (Patricia Schank, Joseph Krajcik, and Molly Yunker)

22. The Impact of Nanotechnologies on Developing Countries (Joachim Schummer).
 

VII. Issues: The Distant Future?

Unit Introduction (Fritz Allhoff).

23. Challenges and Pitfalls in Exponential Manufacturing (Mike Treder and Chris Phoenix).

24. Nanoethics and the High Frontier (Tihamer Toth-Fejel and Chris Dodsworth).

25. Ethics for Artificial Intellects (J. Storrs Hall).

26. Nanotechnology and Life Extension (Sebastian Sethe).