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Preparing for nanotechnologyForesight Institute's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build products—of any size—with atomic precision. Foresight Institute® is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible in the US to the full extent provided by law.
Submissions/nominations due July 31, 2004 for
The 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy will be held Oct. 22-24, 2004, Crystal City Marriott Hotel (Washington, DC Area). Includes 1st Symposium on Molecular Machine Systems on Oct. 22. Download the Conference brochure in PDF format The 12th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology will be held in Autumn 2005.
 Nanotechnology Pioneer Calms Fears of Runaway Replicators
 Nobel Winner Smalley Responds to Drexler's Challenge,
Why you should care about molecular nanotechnology, a new series with an initial installment by Dr. Eric Drexler. Foresight Institute Stage 2. The initial goal of Foresight Institute has been achieved. Next comes Stage 2: Implementation—making molecular nanotechnology (MNT) happen sooner rather than later. Foresight White Paper on "Balancing the National Nanotechnology Initiative's R&D Portfolio" by Neil Jacobstein, Ralph Merkle, and Robert Freitas (PDF - 68 KB, HTML). Foresight president Christine Peterson testified on societal implications of nanotechnology for the U.S. House Science Committee on April 9, 2003. Her testimony is available as written testimony and as a webcast. Eric Drexler wrote an invited essay, The Future of Nanotechnology: Molecular Manufacturing, for the news website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)), and has launched a technically oriented website, e-drexler.com. Visions of the Nanofuture, a column by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, reports on the Foresight Vision Weekend and includes some video interviews with participants, including Lawrence Lessig, Congressman Brad Sherman, and Eric Drexler. (3.2 MB MOV file)
In conjunction with Foresight Institute, CMP Cientifica is pleased to offer a special price to Senior Associates for the 2003 version of their Nanotechnology Opportunity ReportTM. Free White Paper also available. Offer expires August 31, 2004. More
Foresight White Paper on "Nanotechnology for Clean Energy and Resources" by Steve Gillett (PDF - 2.3 MB; text only - 272 KB). Foresight publishes Guidelines for Development of Nanotechnology
Frequently Asked Questions about the Foresight Senior Associates Program
Frequently Asked Questions about nanotechnology, studying nanotechnology, and the Foresight institute Nanomedicine Art Gallery is open Looking for a career in nanotechnology? Foresight and Working In Ltd. have partnered to launch a new Nanotechnology Jobs site.
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Nanoscale wires with interesting properties Singularity Institute Announces New Conference for Advanced Nanotechnology Robert Bradbury on Freitas interview Drexler on nanotech research politics Lawrence Lessig on efforts to stamp out MNT research Nanotech Communication Prize deadline July 31 A Modest Proposal for Prince Charles Everybody's Getting Into The Act: Taiwan Howard Lovy departs Small Times, goes freelance Center for Responsible Nanotechnology briefing document: "Gray Goo is a Small Issue": "Replicating assemblers will not be used for manufacturing. Factory designs using integrated nanotechnology will be much more efficient at building products, and a nanofactory is nothing like a gray goo nanobot. A stationary tabletop factory using only preprocessed chemicals would be both safer and easier to build. Like a drill press or a lathe, such a system could not run wild. Systems like this are the basis for responsible molecular manufacturing proposals. To evaluate Eric Drexler's technical ideas on the basis of gray goo is to miss the far more important policy issues created by general-purpose nanoscale manufacturing."
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