C-PET's focus is on the implications of the key emerging technologies of the 21st century - bringing together investors, the risk community, NGOs from left and right, experts in science and technology, and policymakers for an ongoing roundtable conversation about technology, human society, and the future.
C-PET's recent events in Washington, DC, have included our Presidential Election Forum at the National Press Club, and Consultation on the Future of the Internet hosted by TechAmerica.
C-PET's main focus is on the US policy debate. Through its partner the Global Forum on Emerging Technologies it is taking international initiatives such as the Transatlantic Dialogue on Emerging Technologies (funded by the Wellcome Trust and co-sponsored with US and European universities).
C-PET's mission is to stimulate broad nonpartisan dialogue, and the development of policy proposals, on emerging technologies and their social, ethical, and legal implications.
C-PET Consultation on the Future of the Internet
March 26, 2009
Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET)
co-sponsored by TechAmerica and Tech Policy Central
Keynote:
Michael R. Nelson, Georgetown University:
The Cloud, the Crowd, and the Internet of Things: Policy implications of the next phase of computing
Respondent:
Christopher Hill, George Mason University
Second Keynote:
Mike DiBenedetto, Chat the Planet/Hometown Baghdad
Hometown Baghdad and Beyond: a Case Study in Global Conversation
"Vast issues of policy across every area will be hit by the transformative effects of emerging technologies whether robotics/AI, synthetic bio, virtual reality, neuroscience, or the next generation of research in genetics. The innovation economy. Security. Environment. Freedom. Dignity.
Risk, technology, and human values come to a single point, and must drive a far-sighted policy discussion that we have barely begun."
—Nigel Cameron
President and CEO, C-PET
"Americans have always defined themselves in terms of the future. It is therefore astonishing that there is no policy institute on emerging technologies in the nation's capital, one that cuts across philosophical lines. C-PET addresses that absence in our national conversation."
—JONATHAN MORENO
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