Foresight Institute is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1986 on a vision of coming revolutions in technology that will bring extraordinary opportunities, as well as unprecedented challenges: “If we push in the right directions — learning, teaching, arguing, shifting directions, and pushing further — then we may yet steer the technology race toward a future with room enough for our dreams.” —K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
Advancing nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computer science for the long-term benefit of life.
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A group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and institutional allies who cooperate to advance progress on atomically precise applications in energy, medicine, and materials science toward Feynman’s vision of molecular machines. Apply.
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Sponsored by 100 Plus Capital this group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and institutional allies cooperate in spurring field-wide progress on technologies that fight aging and increase human healthspan. Apply.
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A group of experts in computer science, cryptography, AI, and related fields who apply these tools to build a future defined by intelligent cooperation and decentralized defenses against automated physical and digital threats. Apply.
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Thanks to the virtual switch, 2020 has allowed us to reach more talent than ever across the world. To leverage this opportunity, in 2021 we are launching four focus groups, on Biotechnology & Health ...FORESIGHT 2.021 | New Virtual Program, Community, President - mailchi.mp/foresight/foresight-2021
Become a Foresight Member and collaborate with Foresight’s community in 2021 to build towards flourishing futures.
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2020, An Unexpected Year: Progress Report
Read how thanks to the virtual switch, this year has elevated Foresight’s work to a new stage in terms of the scientific talent we support.
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Today is the last day to apply to our 2021 Foresight Fellowship here: bit.ly/2021foresightfellow.
Support can include but is not limited to invitations to our strategy groups, connection to fellows and mentors, and publication of your work; we will work hand in hand with you to find the optimal way to support you.
We focus on applications in the following four categories:
| Biotech: Health Extension | You work to advance progress on preventative and rejuvenating technologies that are crucial for guaranteeing long healthy lives for humans.
| Nanotech: Molecular Machines | You work to advance Feynman's vision of nanotechnology, to create atomically precise applications in energy, agriculture, materials science, and spur long-term progress toward molecular machines.
| Computing: Intelligent Cooperation | You work on innovations in computing, cryptography, and AI to help humans and emerging intelligences cooperate.
| Foresight: Existential Hope | You work on macro multipliers to turn humanity's challenges into opportunities for flourishing futures.
Take a look at the incredible work of our 2020 Fellows: foresight.org/fellowship-class-of-2020/
3 days left to apply to our 2021 Foresight Fellowship: Review the work of our 2020 fellows and apply: foresight.org/fellowship-class-of-2020/
The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year supportive program committed to giving outstanding talent the support and mentorship to accelerate their work while they continue to work in their existing career.
Support can include but is not limited to invitations to our strategy groups, connection to fellows and mentors, and publication of your work; we will work hand in hand with you to find the optimal way to support you and your work.
We focus on applications in the following four categories:
| Biotech: Health Extension | You work to advance progress on preventative and rejuvenating technologies that are crucial for guaranteeing long healthy lives for humans.
| Nanotech: Molecular Machines | You work to advance Feynman's vision of nanotechnology, to create atomically precise applications in energy, agriculture, materials science, and spur long-term progress toward molecular machines.
| Computing: Intelligent Cooperation | You work on innovations in computing, cryptography and AI to help humans and emerging intelligences cooperate.
| Foresight: Existential Hope | You work on macro multipliers to turn humanity's challenges into opportunities for flourishing futures.
Fellowship class of 2020 - Foresight Institute
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Tessa Alexanian : 2020 Foresight Fellow in Responsible Biotechnology Tessa Alexanian spends her weekdays wrangling robots to accelerate biological engineering and her evenings trying to make sure biol...Double your impact advancing biotech, nanotech, computing towards grand futures & join XHope Group, and Virtual 2021 Kick-Off on Dec 12
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What do you think are the most pressing questions about emerging advances in technology today?
This exciting project from The Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz is crowdsourcing those questions to create a deck of playing cards-- send yours to tehcfutures52.ucsc.edu
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Funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for small businesses (SBIRs) Topic T:
Supporting Entrepreneurial Energy Discoveries (SEED) from ARPA-e.
Topics in detail can be found in the attachments below (pp. 200-203).
Some topics of interest:
• Advanced trees (or other plants) as high-performance, durable structural materials and/or as permanent carbon sequestration solutions
• Novel, scalable, highly energy-efficient industrial drying technologies
• Novel building climate control technologies
• Approaches to significantly enhance the rate and/or potential scale of carbon mineralization as a means of long-term CO2 storage
• Scalable, disruptive, economically viable direct air capture
• Scalable, disruptive, economically viable separation of dissolved inorganic carbon from the ocean
• Novel technologies to cost-effectively repurpose or recover energy or materials from emerging technologies at end-of-life
• Technologies to efficiently recover high-value resources from mine tailings
• Transformative, efficient technologies for controlled comminution
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ARPA-E: Funding Opportunity Exchange
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This announcement is purposely broad in scope, and will cover a wide range of topics to encourage the submission of the most innovative and unconventional ideas in energy technology. The objective of ...