Plan NanoBio (NB)

I’ve presented a plan B at a TED Rosario ( Argentina) in 2013. It was B by Biotechnology, B by Bioeconomy and B by transgenic Biofactory ( it was subtitled in Spanish, English, German and Korean). It was an alternative to the current environmental an economic problems of a planet going adrift and with a plan A that had lost its way long time ago. After seven years it is clearly emerging that Biotechnology is not enough to solve all the current and future challenges in purpose to satisfy primary human necessities, as to know: food, health, energy, housing, clothing, transport, care of environment, communication and defense. Biotechnology, for example, provide biogas, bioethanol and biodiesel within the energy area. Meanwhile the Nanotechnology can provide a quantum dot solar cell, nanocatalysts to turn carbon dioxide into methane and better batteries for electric cars.

In the area of ​​health, biotechnology gives rise to biopharmaceuticals (eg, monoclonal antibodies) and biotechnological therapies (cell therapies and gene therapies), while nanotechnology revolutionizes the entry of drugs into the body with nasal entry nanoaerosols capable of replacing injections, nanoparticles to destroy cancer by localized surface plasmon resonance, nanorrobots for diagnosis and treatment and, biomimetics, to produce plastic antibodies and alternative antivirals. Nanotechnology responds to nine of the human needs identified and shares four of them with biotechnological developments: food, health, energy and care for the environment. Based on the foregoing and trying to understand the constant advancement of converging technologies, I believe that it is necessary to complement Plan B to save the world (planet) presented in 2013, today I have no doubt that we must advance in the context with a NanoBio (NB) plan coinciding in the initial letters with the technologies of the 21st century: the NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info and Cognotechnologies).

Additional information:

A Plan B (Bioeconomics, Biotechnology, Transgenic Biofactory) to save the world.    
Nanoeconomy Time

La convergencia de las tecnologías exponenciales y la singularidad tecnológica. Alberto L. D’Andrea (coordinador). 2017. Ed. Temas. Buenos Aires. Argentina.