Solutions follow perceptions: NBIC and the concept of health, medicine, disability and disease.

atomic or molecular scale, enables a new paradigm of science and technology that sees different technologies converging at the nanoscale, namely (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine; (c) information technology; and (d) cognitive science (“NBIC” (nano-bio-info-cogno)). This paradigm derives from the fact that living systems are governed by molecular behavior at the nanometer scale, where chemistry, physics, biology, and computer science all now converge.