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Books Back to Top

Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P., Lebedev, M.A. & Witte, F. (2022). Quantum Computing for the Brain. London: World Scientific.

Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P. & Witte, F. (2020). Quantum Computing: Physics, Blockchains, and Deep Learning Smart Networks. London: World Scientific.

Swan, M. (2019). Introduction (Pp. xxi-xlii), Chapter 1: Blockchain Economic Theory: Digital Asset Contracting reduces Debt and Risk (Pp. 2-23), and Chapter 9: Blockchain Theory of Programmable Risk: Black Swan Smart Contracts (Pp. 171-94). In Swan, M., Potts, J., Takagi, S., Witte, F., Tasca, P., Eds. Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers - Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality. London: World Scientific.

Swan, M. (2015). Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly Media.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles Back to Top

Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P. & Witte, F. (2022). Quantum Matter Overview. J. 5(2):232-254.

Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P. & Witte, F. (2022). Quantum Neurobiology. Quantum Reports. 4(1):107-127.

Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P. & Witte, F. (2022). Quantum Information Science. IEEE Internet Computing. Special Journal Issue: Quantum and Post-Moore’s Law Computing. January/February 2022.

Swan, M. (2021). Murder in the Satoshi Quantum Crypto Cloudmind. Smart network fiction: Dapp detective vs. rogue AI. Quantum Shorts essay competition.

Swan, M. (2021). The AdS/Brain Theory of Neural Signaling: Network-Neuron-Synapse-Molecule. Conference on Complex Systems. CCS 2021 Lyon France.

Swan, M. (forthcoming). Alexander von Humboldt’s Environmental Holism. In Allert, B., Clason, C., Peach, N. & Quintana-Vallejo, R. (Eds). Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World. West Lafayette IN: Purdue University Press.

Treiblmaier, H., Swan, M., de Filippi, P. et al. (2021). What’s Next in Blockchain Research? An Identification of Key Topics Using a Multidisciplinary Perspective. ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 52(1):27–52.

Swan, M. (2020-Preprint). B/CI: Quantum Computing, Holographic Control Theory, and Blockchain IPLD for Brain.

Swan, M. (2020). Black Hole Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Foundational Questions Institute. FQXi Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability essay contest.

Swan, M. (2019). Worldwide Cryonics Attitudes About the Body, Cryopreservation, and Revival: Personal Identity Malleability and a Theory of Cryonic Life Extension. Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. Springer Nature B.V. Pp. 1-37.

Martins, N.R.B., Angelica, A., Chakravarthy, K., Svidinenko Y., Boehm, F.J., Opris, I., Lebedev, M.A., Swan, M., Garan, S.A., Rosenfeld, J.V., Hogg, T., & Freitas Jr., R.A. (2019). Human Brain/Cloud Interface. Front. Neurosci. 13(112):1-23.

YouTube Video

Swan, M. (2019). Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds. In Lee, N. Ed., The Transhuman Handbook. Switzerland: Springer. Pp. 513-527.

Swan, M., and dos Santos, R.P. (2019-Preprint). Smart Network Field Theory: The Technophysics of Blockchain and Deep Learning.

Swan, M. (Forthcoming). Technophysics, Smart Health Networks, and the Bio-cryptoeconomy: Quantized Fungible Global Health Care Equivalency Units for Health and Well-being. In Boehm, F. Ed., Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, and AI: Toward the Dream of Global Health Care Equivalency. Boca Raton FL: CRC Press.

Swan, M. (2019). Quantified Self. In Gellman, M., Lattie, E., Eds. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer.

Swan, M. (2019). Blockchain Economic Networks: Economic Network Theory of Systemic Risk and Blockchain Technology. In Treiblmaier, H., Beck, R., Eds. Business Transformation through Blockchain. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 3-45.

Swan, M. (2018). Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds. Humanity Plus magazine. Global Essay Competition Winner: Mutual Benefits of Blockchain and Transhumanism. Pp. 1-12.

Swan, M., and Brunswicker, S. (2018). Blockchain Economic Networks and Algorithmic Trust. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). New Orleans LA, August 16-18, 2018.

Swan, M. (2018). Blockchain Enlightenment and Smart City Cryptopolis. CryBlock'18 Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems. Munich, Germany. June 15, 2018. Pp. 48-53.

Swan, M. (2018). Blockchain Consumer Apps: Next-generation Social Networks. CryptoInsider.

Swan, M. (2018). Blockchain for Business: Next-Generation Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Systems. In Raj, P., Deka, G.C., Eds. Advances in Computers. Vol. 111. Blockchain Technology: Platforms, Tools and Use Cases. London: Elsevier.

Swan, M. (2018). Blockchain Economics: 'Ripple for ERP' integrated blockchain supply chain ledgers. European Financial Review. Feb-Mar: 24-7.

Swan, M. (Submitted). Toward a Social Theory of Dignity: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and Essential Difference in the Human-Robot Relation. In Robots, Power, and Relationships. Eds. Julie Carpenter, Francesca Ferrando, and Anthony Milligan.

Swan, M. (2017). Anticipating the Economic Benefits of Blockchain. Technology Innovation Management Review. 7(10):6-13.

Swan, M. & de Filippi, P. (2017). Introduction, In (special journal issue) Toward a Philosophy of Blockchain: A Symposium. Swan, M. & de Filippi, P., Eds. Metaphilosophy. New York: Wiley & Sons. 48(5):603-19.

Swan, M. (2017). Is the Blockchain Economy Ushering in a New World Economic Order? The Bitcoin Hard Fork, SEC's ICO Ruling and Hayek’s Multiplicity of Currencies. In Bitcoin Magazine.

Swan, M. (2017). Big Data Theory. In Encyclopedia of Big Data. Laurie A. Schintler and Connie L. McNeely, Eds. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Swan, M. (2017). Expectation on Blockchain: Blockchain Economics and Finance. Frontier of the Blockchain, Intelligence No. 121, Chijo (Intelplace), Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan. 17-24. Amazon Japan

Swan, M. (2017). Is Technological Unemployment Real? Abundance Economics. In Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work. Eds. James Hughes and Kevin LaGrandeur. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 19-33.

Swan, M. (2017). Included Middle. Response to The Edge Question 2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? John Brockman, Ed.

Swan, M. (2016). Derrida’s Perdurant Temporality and a New Theory of Time as Discrete-Continuous. 5th Derrida Today Conference. Goldsmiths, University of London. 8th – 11th June 2016.

Swan, M. (2016). The Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces: Blockchaining Your Way into a Cloudmind. Journal of Evolution and Technology. 26(2).

Swan, M. (2016). Philosophy of Social Robotics: Abundance Economics. Sociorobotics, 8th International Conference on Social Robotics, Kansas City, KS, USA, November 1-3, 2016. Proceedings.

Swan, M. (2016). Blockchain Temporality: Smart Contract Time Specifiability with Blocktime. Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications, 10th International Symposium, RuleML 2016, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 6-9, 2016. Proceedings. 184-96.

Swan, M. (2016). Rethinking Authority With The Blockchain Crypto Enlightenment.Response to The Edge Question 2016: What do you consider the most interesting recent news? What makes it important? In Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments. John Brockman, Ed. New York: HarperCollins. 564-7.

Swan, M. (2016). Cognitive Enhancement as Subjectivation: Bergson, Deleuze & Simondon. Saarbrucken DE: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN# 978-3-659-83558-2. Book Cover

Swan, M. (2015). Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation). Technology and Society. IEEE. 34(4): 41-52.

PDF. Also presented at Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX, March 27-29, 2015. Presentation

Swan, M. (2015). Philosophy of Big Data: Expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data Science Services. IEEE BigDataService 2015, Redwood City CA, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2015. Paper, Presentation

Kido, T. and Swan, M. (Symposium Co-Organizers and Paper Co-Authors). (2015). Ambient Intelligence and Crowdsourced genetics for understanding Personal Cognitive Biases in Decision Making. AAAI 2015 Spring Symposia: Ambient Intelligence for Health and Cognitive Enhancement Stanford CA, March 2015.

Swan, M. (2015). Digital Simondon: The Collective Individuation of Man and Machine. Platform Journal of Media and Communication, Vol. 6.1 – Gilbert Simondon: Media and technics. 6: 46-58. Link

Swan, M. (2015). Connected Car: Quantified Self becomes Quantified Car. J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 4(1): 2-29. Link

Swan, M. (2015). We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence. Response to The Edge Question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? John Brockman, Ed.

Swan, M. (2015). Machine Ethics Interfaces: An Ethics of Perception of Nanocognition. In Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology. Jeffrey White, Ed. London: IGI Global. 97-123. Table of Contents, Abstract

Swan, M. (2014). Journal of Evolution and Technology, Special Issue: NonHuman Personhood (Volume 24 Issue 3). Personhood and Subjectivation in Simondon and Heidegger. 24(3).

Swan, M., Kido, T., and Ruckenstein, M. (2014). BRAINY – Multi-modal Brain Training App for Google Glass: Cognitive Enhancement, Wearable Computing, and the Internet-of-Things extend Personal Data Analytics. Proceedings: Workshop on Personal Data Analytics in the Internet of Things, 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 1-5, 2014, Hangzhou China.

Kido, T. and Swan, M. (2014). (Symposium Co-Organizers and Paper Co-Authors). Know Thyself: Data Driven Self-awareness for Understanding our Unconscious Behaviors. AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia: Big Data Becomes Personal: Knowledge into Meaning.

Pickard, K.T. and Swan, M. (2014). Big Desire to Share Big Health Data: A Shift in Consumer Attitudes toward Personal Health Information. AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia: Big Data Becomes Personal: Knowledge into Meaning.

Swan, M. (2014). The Non-Cruciality Of Personal Identity: Immortality As Possibility In The Prospect of Immortality: Fifty Years Later. Charles Tandy, Ed. Ann Arbor MI: Ria University Press. 385-420.

Swan, M. (2014). The Scientific Method. Response to The Edge Question 2014: What scientific idea is ready for retirement? John Brockman, Ed.

Swan, M. (2014). Nanomedical Cognitive Enhancement and Top Ten Recent Nanomedical Advances. In Clinical Nanomedicine: from Bench to Bedside. Raj Bawa, Gerald F. Audette, and Israel Rubinstein, Eds. Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing. Volume 1. 73-102.

Kido, T., Kawashima, M., Nishino, S., Swan, M., Kamatani, N. & Butte, A.J. (2013). Systematic Evaluation of Personal Genome Services for Japanese Individuals. Nature: Journal of Human Genetics. 58: 734-741. Link

Swan, M. (2013). The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery. Big Data. 1(2): 85-99.

2013 IJERPH Best Paper Award for: Swan, M. (2009). Emerging Patient-driven Health Care Models: an Examination of Health Social Networks, Consumer Personalized Medicine, and Quantified Self-tracking. Int J Environ Res Public Health2:492-525.

Award Announcement

Swan, M. (2013). Next-generation Personal Genomic Studies: Extending Social Intelligence Genomics to Cognitive Performance Genomics in Quantified Creativity and Thinking Fast and Slow. AAAI 2013 Spring Symposia: Data Driven Wellness: From Self-Tracking to Behavior Change

Swan, M. (2013). Neural Data Privacy Rights: An Invitation For Progress In The Guise Of An Approaching Worry. Response to The Edge Question 2013: What *Should* We Be Worried About?. John Brockman, Ed.

Swan, M. (2012). Sensor Mania! The Internet of Things, Wearable Computing, Objective Metrics, and the Quantified Self 2.0. J Sens Actuator Netw. 1(3):217-253. Link

Swan, M. (2012). Health 2050: The Realization of Personalized Medicine through Crowdsourcing, the Quantified Self, and the Participatory Biocitizen. J Pers Med 2(3):93-118. Link

Swan, M. (2012). Overview of Recent Advances in the Generation of Human Neurons and Neural Stem Cells through Reprogramming and Differentiation Techniques. Future Neurology. 7(4): 473-482.

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Swan, M. (2012). Applied Genomics: Personalized Interpretation of Athletic Performance Genetic Association Data for Sports Performance Capability and Injury Reduction. J Biosci Med. 2(1). Link

Swan, M. (2012). DIYgenomics Citizen Science Health Research Studies: Personal Wellness and Preventive Medicine through Collective Intelligence. AAAI Symposium on Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness 2012, Mar.

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Swan, M. (2012). Crowdsourced Health Research Studies: An Important Emerging Complement to Clinical Trials in the Public Health Research Ecosystem. J Med Internet Res. 14(2):e46. Link

Swan, M. (2012). Scaling Crowdsourced Health Studies: the Emergence of a New Form of Contract Research Organization. Pers Med . 9(2): 223-234. Link

Swan, M. (2012). Next Node Foment. Response to The Edge Question 2012: What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? John Brockman, Ed.

Swan, M. (2012). Earning One's Multicurrency Life in Economy 2.0. In Desirable New World. Diverse, Sustainable and Creative Life in 2042. Enthusiasmo Cultural Ltda. & Deheinzelin, C., Eds. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 48-49.

Swan, M. (2011). Steady Advance of Stem Cell Therapies. Rejuvenation Res. 14(6): 699-704.

Swan, M. (2011). Meeting report: American Aging Association 40th Annual Meeting, Raleigh NC USA June 3-6, 2011. Rejuvenation Res. 14(4): 449-55.

Swan, M., Hathaway, K., Hogg, C., McCauley, R., Vollrath, A. (2010). Citizen Science Genomics as a Model for Crowdsourced Preventive Medicine Research. J Participat Med. 2:e20.

Swan, M. (2010). Multigenic Condition Risk Assessment in Direct-to-Consumer Genomic Services. Genet Med. 12(5): 279-88.

PDF; Supplemental Digital Content

XLS; side-by-side loci and SNP comparison by condition: mobile apps, web app, and featured at Access DNA; DIYgenomics citizen science studies.

Swan, M. (2010). Translational Antiaging Research. Rejuvenation Res. 13(1): 115-7.

Swan, M. (2010). Engineering Life into Technology: The Application of Complexity Theory to a Potential Phase Transition in Intelligence. Symmetry. 2: 150-183.

Swan, M. (2009). Emerging Patient-driven Health Care Models: an Examination of Health Social Networks, Consumer Personalized Medicine, and Quantified Self-tracking. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2: 492-525.

DeLeo, J., Remaley, A.T., Moore, G.W., McLaughlin, G.L., Bicknell, E.J. & Swan, M. (2009). NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group Book Club Review of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman. Clin Chem. 55: 2064-2065.

Unpublished Articles Back to Top

New Banks, New Currencies and New Markets in a Multicurrency World: Roadmap for a Post-Scarcity Economy by 2050 (article) (Oct 2009)

Economic Fallacies of Future Technology (article) (Aug 2008)

Future Economy: Roadmap 2050 (paper) (Jul 2008)

Markets 2.0: (essay) (Oct 2006), (presentation) (Apr 2008)

PDF, Taxonomy, Predictions

Genomics Health Revolution (article) (Jun 2009) HTML

Conference Summaries Back to Top

Genomics

Personal genome: data analysis challenge, August 12, 2010, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 3rd Annual Personal Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor NY, August 10-12, 2010.

Rational growth in consumer genomics, June 6, 2010, Consumer Genetics Show, Boston MA, June 2-4, 2010.

Individuals to drive personalized medicine era, January 24, 2010, Personalized Medicine World Congress, Mountain View CA, January 19-20, 2010.

Preventive medicine and Docs vs. Genomics, October 4, 2009, National Coalition for Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) 12th annual meeting, Bethesda MD, September 23-24, 2009.

Personalized genomics inflection point, September 20, 2009, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2nd Annual Personal Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor NY, September 14-17, 2009.

Genomics: highest-impact near-term advance, June 14, 2009, Consumer Genomics Show, Boston MA, June 9-11, 2009.

Aging

Stem Cell Research and Aging, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, March 1-2, 2012.

40th annual meeting of the American Aging Association, Raleigh NC, June 3-6, 2011, summary, journal article.

Third Bay Area Aging meeting summary, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA, May 8, 2011.

Second Bay Area Aging meeting summary, Second Bay Area Aging Meeting, Stanford University, Stanford CA, December 4, 2010.

Translational antiaging research, February 2010, Fourth annual SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation conference, Queens’ College, Cambridge UK, September 3-7, 2009.

Aging research: systems biology, genomics and new tools, January 10, 2010, Systems Biology Symposium of Aging, Buck Institute, Novato, CA, November 10-13, 2009.

Progress in Aging: Secretome, mRNA and Nutrients, December 13, 2009, Systems Biology of Human Aging, U.S. National Institute on Aging, Baltimore MD, December 8-9, 2009.

MMP inhibitor to kill senescent cells, November 15, 2009, Systems Biology Symposium of Aging, Buck Institute, Novato, CA, November 10-13, 2009.

Aging is solvable, June 7, 2009, American Aging Association 38th annual meeting, Phoenix AZ, May 29 – June 1, 2009.

Nanotechnology

Opportunities in level-two nanoscience, May 3, 2009, The future of computing – rotaxanes?, May 31, 2009, Reference guide to current nanotechnology research, May 3, 2009, Foundations of Nanoscience, Snowbird UT, April 20-24, 2009.

Foundations of bio-info tech convergence, 2nd annual Unither Nanomedical and Telemedical Technology Conference, Magog Quebec, February 24-27, 2009.

Synthetic Biology

Programmable RNA and other recent advances in synthetic biology, December 18, 2011, Synthetic Biology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco CA, December 14, 2011.

Synbio revolution: biology is the engineering medium, June 26, 2011, Synthetic Biology 5.0: The Fifth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology, Stanford University, Stanford CA, June 15-17, 2011.

Synbio in space, October 31, 2010, NASA Synthetic Biology Workshop, NASA Ames, Moffett Field CA, October 30-31, 2010.

Bio-design automation and synbio tools, August 2, 2009, Bio-Design Automation workshop, San Francisco CA, July 27, 2009.

Stem Cell Research

7th Annual World Stem Cell Summit, Pasadena CA, October 3-6, 2011, summary, journal article.

Status of stem cell research, September 27, 2009, 5th Annual World Stem Cell Summit, Baltimore MD, September 21-23, 2009.

General Science and Technology

Crowdsourced Labor, Digital Marketplaces, and the Future of Self-Actualized eWork, November 5, 2012, CrowdConf 2012, San Francisco CA, October 23, 2012.

Singularity Summit 2012: Image Recognition, Analogy, Big Health Data, and Bias Reduction, October 21, 2012, Singularity Summit 2012, San Francisco CA, October 13-14, 2012.

The Evolution of the Quantified Self into the Qualified Self and the Extended Exoself, October 14, 2012, Quantified Self Conference, Palo Alto CA, September 15-16, 2012.

Sensor Mania! TechCrunch Disrupt Hardware Day!, September 12, 2012, TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco CA, September 9-12, 2012.

Quantization trends of the future: crowdsourcing and geolocation, November 10, 2011, CrowdConf2011 (November 1-2, 2011) and Geo-Loco (November 3, 2011), San Francisco CA.

Microbubbles and photoacoustic probes energize cancer researchers, May 30, 2010, Canary Foundation symposium, Stanford CA, May 25-27, 2010.

Status of cancer detection, May 10, 2009, Canary Foundation symposium, Stanford CA, May 4-6, 2009.

Review of Futurist Literature Back to Top

"The Singularity is Near" - Ray Kurzweil (Feb 2006)

"On Intelligence" - Jeff Hawkins (Apr 2006)

"The Black Swan" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Jun 2007)

"Collapse"- Jared Diamond (Jun 2006)

"Blink" - Malcolm Gladwell (Mar 2006)

"How Doctors Think" - Jerome Groopman (Sep 2007)

Project Archive (2006-2009)