Advancing technology for the long-term benefit of life.
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Mission
Foresight Institute supports the beneficial development of high-impact technology to make great futures more likely. We focus on science and technology that is too early-stage or interdisciplinary for legacy institutions to support.
For instance:
- Molecular Machines to better control matter
- Biotech to reverse aging
- Computer Science to secure human AI cooperation
- Neurotech to support human flourishing
- Spacetech to further exploration
+30 years of Foresight
Principles
We believe that the best things happen at the intersections. This is why our community is:
- Interdisciplinary: our programs further collaboration across molecular nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computing, that is not incentivized in academia, startups, or institutions.
- International: our community collaborates across local clusters through a mix between regular virtual seminars and in-person meetings around the world.
- Intergenerational: through close collaborations between junior fellows and senior scientists with 35-year Foresight experience, we cultivate a long-term outlook on flourishing futures
Updates
Wow! Preprint from William Shih and his team on how crisscross polymerization of DNA-origami slats can yield micron-scale structures with uniquely addressable nanoscale features is finally out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.06.475243v1
Watch his Foresight presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcgiuN_kv5s
Multi-micron crisscross structures from combinatorially assembled DNA-origami slats
www.biorxiv.org
Living systems achieve robust self-assembly across length scales. Meanwhile, nanofabrication strategies such as DNA origami have enabled robust self-assembly of submicron-scale shapes.However, erroneo...
New podcast episode!
Emil Kendziorra & Aschwin De Wolf | Biostasis & Cryonics Q&A
What's the state of cryonics?
Dr. Emil Kendziorra & Aschwin De Wolf talk about the process in cryonics & cryopreservation of organs, especially brains.
Listen here: foresight.org/podcast/
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Welcome to the Foresight Institute’s podcast! Since 1986, Foresight has been advancing technologies for the long-term benefit of life and the biosphere. We focus on three areas: molecular machine na...
New seminar summary!
Neurotech: BCI & WBE Q&A with Randal Koene, Carbon Copies
What is happening in Neurotech? What is possible and not? And how far away are any potentially revolutionizing discoveries in this field?
foresight.org/salon/neurotech-bci-wbe-qa-with-randal-koene-carbon-copies/
Neurotech: BCI & WBE Q&A with Randal Koene, Carbon Copies - Foresight Institute
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Randal has had a dream of unraveling the blueprint of the human brain. He studied physics in Amsterdam, mastered in AI, and did a computational neuroscience PhD. He taught about the prefrontal cortex ...
Do you work in science and tech and want the future to go well? Join Foresight and friends for our global meetups to meet alike minds!
CURRENT MEETUPS (covid-pending):
San Francisco: hosted by Allison Duettmann, Foresight, and Laurence Ion, VitaDAO, Anastasiya Giarletta, R42
NYC: hosted by Jean Hebert, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
LA: hosted by Arye Lipman, Mars Bio, and Ramsay Brown, AI Responsibility Lab
Berlin: hosted by Vincent Weisser, VitaDAO, Niklas Rindhoff, VitaDAO
London: hosted by Nikolina Lauc, GlycanAge
Stockholm: hosted by Beatrice Erkers, Foresight Institute
Zurich: hosted by Victor Bjork, Rejuveron
Toronto: hosted by Nathan Cheng, On Deck Longevity Biotech
Paris: hosted by Aleksandra Smilek, Foresight Institute
Hawaii: hosted by Vin.
Fill out this form to mark your interest: foresight.org/global-meetups/
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New seminar summary!
Reason, Fight Aging | Q&A on How to Fight Aging
foresight.org/salon/reason-fight-aging-qa-on-how-to-fight-aging/
Reason, Fight Aging | Q&A on How to Fight Aging - Foresight Institute
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Reason is the founder and writer of Fight Aging!, a leading voice in the rejuvenation biotechnology and patient advocacy communities for more than fifteen years. He is also co-founder and CEO of Repai...
New seminar summary!
Progress on Health Extension in 2021 with Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus Capital
foresight.org/salon/progress-on-health-extension-in-2021-with-sonia-arrison-100-plus-capital/
Progress on Health Extension in 2021 with Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus Capital - Foresight Institute
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Sonia Arrison is an entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author. She is founder of 100 Plus Capital, Chair of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives, advisor to Felicis Ventures, and advisor to Bi...
