Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology
Foresight is the leading think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology. Founded in 1986, Foresight was the first organization to educate society about the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. At that time, nanotechnology was a little-known concept.
Today, with the basic framework of public understanding in place, we are refocusing our efforts on guiding nanotechnology research, public policy and education to address the critical challenges facing humanity.
Foresight’s new mission is to ensure the beneficial implementation of nanotechnology.
Foresight is accomplishing this by providing balanced, accurate and timely information to help society understand and utilize nanotechnology through public policy activities, publications, guidelines, networking events, tutorials, conferences, roadmaps and prizes.
Foresight is a member-supported organization. Our membership, including over 14,000 individuals and a growing number of corporations, is diverse demographically and geographically. They are interested in ensuring that the future of nanotechnology unfolds for the benefit of all. These concerned individuals include scientists, engineers, business people, investors, publishers, artists, ethicists, policy makers, interested laypersons, and students from grammar school to graduate level.
Foresight ® is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible in the US to the full extent provided by law.
Foresight Making News
Foresight Nanotech Institute Adopts New Mission
Think Tank Defines Key Nanotechnology Challenges
Menlo Park, CA – May 23, 2005 – Foresight Institute, the original
organization in the nanotechnology field, founded in 1986, announced today
that it has updated its mission and focus. The organization has also renamed
itself Foresight Nanotech Institute to reflect these changes.
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Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges
While nanotechnology has made great advances in the last two decades, it has yet to fulfill its ultimate potential. Foresight is dedicated to fostering nanotechnologies that can make a significant contribution to solving critical challenges which humanity faces— Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges. These challenges are:
- Meeting global energy needs with clean solutions
- Providing abundant clean water globally
- Increasing the health and longevity of human life
- Maximizing the productivity of agriculture
- Making powerful information technology available everywhere
- Enabling the development of space
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