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.
Nanotech
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.
Biotech
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.
Computation
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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A group of scientists, innovators, philosophers, and activists who collaborate on seeking crucial opportunities for humanity to leverage high-impact STEM areas for flourishing futures. Apply.
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Updates
Tissue Rejuvenation via Plasma Dilution with Irina Conboy, UC Berkeley
Irina presents her recent findings on plasma dilution, showing that age-reversing effects, such as rejuvenating tissues in mice, can be achieved by
diluting the blood plasma of old mice: Rejuvenation of three germ layers tissues by exchanging old blood plasma with saline-albumin.
David Leigh, Raymond Astumian, Alberto Credi: The Advent of Artificial Molecular Machines.
First keynote session of the Foresight Molecular Machines group.
*Health Extension Accelerator applications are open*:
We have opened applications for our health extension accelerator in the fall of this year.
Review our mentors at the bottom of our 2021 Biotech & Health Extension keynote program and apply with your idea, project, or company.
Mentors include Steve Horvath, UCLA, Nils Regge, Apollo VC, Aubrey De Grey, SENS, Jim O Neill, SENS, Reason, FightAging, Joe Betts-Lacroix, former Vium, Morgan Levine, Yale University, Gordon Lauc, GlycanAge, Margaretta Colangelo, Longevity Technology, Petr Sramek from the Longevity Techfund and many more.
Some small financial support is available, too.
Feel free to share this page with other projects which could benefit from this program.
foresight.org/biotech-health-extension-program/
Biotech: Health Extension Program - Foresight Institute
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Foresight's Biotech & Health Extension Group sponsored byUpcoming Sifchain seminar with Foresight Fellow in Decentralized Market Design Jazear Brooks, this week chatting with Michael Zargham of Blockscience, this Sat Feb 10 AM PT
www.crowdcast.io/e/sifchain--blockscience
More on the speakers, from the event page:
Zargham is the Founder of R&D Firm BlockScience, where his focus is on mathematical and computational models applied for design and governance of complex systems. He holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania focused on optimal resource allocation policies in networks. Currently, he’s affiliated with the Research Institute for Crypoeconomics at WU Vienna. Additionally, he’s a cofounder of the open source project cadCAD, as well as the Token Engineering community. Zargham is also a contributor to Metagov, PrimeDAO, MetaGame, and 1hive, as well as a founder of Commons Stack. Balancer was originally a BlockScience internal R&D project and Zargham is an equity and token holder in Balancer Labs.
We're also excited to have Sifchain's very own Jazear Brooks. Jazear is a computer scientist (BS Computer Science and Economics from Yale) with a decade of leadership and engineering experience working within the technology and financial services industry. Before moving into blockchain, Jazear held positions at Microsoft, Glassboard, Pixorial, and Madrone (a hedge fund analytics company). Blockchain became Jazear’s passion because it allowed him to combine his skill set in engineering and economics to develop novel crypto-economic models and trading strategies. Jazear also served as Director of Engineering at Swish Labs and Blockchain Architect at Thorchain prior to his work on Sifchain
Sifchain + Blockscience Seminar - Crowdcast
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Register now for Sifchain's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Saturday February 20, 2021 at 10:00 am PST.What are the Aging Industry blindspots? Our guest speakers discuss unincentivized work that could dramatically advance progress on aging.
With Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus Capital, Karl Pfleger, AgingBiotech.info, Dr. Micheal D West, AgeX therapeutics
Aging industry blindspots | S Arrison, 100 Plus Capital, K Pfleger, AgingBiotech.info, M West, AgeX
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Foresight Biotech & Health Extension Group Sponsored by 100 Plus Capital.Accelerator applications are open now: foresight.org/biotech-health-extensio...To spice up your weekend:
1. Introduction to Intelligent Cooperation: Mark S. Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison Duettmann
2. Robin Hanson, George Mason University : Value Drift | Mark S. Miller, Agoric: Paretotropism
3. A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens by Robin Hanson
All Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation videos are available in this playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lKliaFllPA&list=PLH78wfbGI1x0QS-1GIjARHRWjVBKF-ofB
The Intelligent Cooperation group is a private group of people in cs, cryptography, ML, and related fields, who apply these tools to build future defined by intelligent voluntary cooperation.
Prompted by monthly keynotes, we discuss how to strengthen cryptocommerce technologies that support cooperation across a diversity of goals, decentralized defenses against physical and digital threats, and how to extend such architectures to include emerging intelligences.
Check out future speakers of the 2021 Intelligent Cooperation Program: foresight.org/intelligent-cooperation/
Intelligent Cooperation Intro: Mark S. Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison Duettmann
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Timestamp for interview start: youtu.be/rTzIop9CstI?t=519The Intelligent Cooperation group is a private group of people in cs, cryptography, ML, and ...What does the future hold for molecular machines? -- Launch video of Foresight's Molecular Machines Program.
After an intro by Program Coordinator & Foresight Fellow James Arthur Cooper, we discuss which areas are of particular interest to this group for spurring advances in molecular machines and how we can help progress along throughout 2021.
2021 Molecular Machines Foresight Program here:
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James Cooper, University of Reading
James Arthur Cooper was born and raised in Shropshire, England. He obtained his MChem (2010) from the University of York and his PhD (2014) from the University of Bristol, where he studied transmembrane anion transport under the guidance of Professor Anthony Davis.
James then moved to the University of Edinburgh to work as a postdoctoral research associate with Professor Scott Cockroft, interrogating single molecules and reactions using transmembrane protein nanopores.
He then took up a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University in the United States, working with Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart and Professor Douglas Philp, studying molecular machines, systems chemistry and self-replicating molecules.
James returned to the United Kingdom in September 2020 to take up a position as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Reading. His group’s research interests focus on the study of systems chemistry, membrane transport and molecular machines, particularly the development of stimuli-responsive membrane-bound assemblies and coupling replication processes with compartmentalised architectures.
James is a 2021 Foresight Fellow in Transmembrane Molecular Nanotechnology.
Molecular Machines Group Launch | James Cooper, University of Reading
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Foresight Molecular Machines GroupAfter a brief intro by James, we discuss which areas are of particular interest to this group for spurring advances in mole...Upcoming crypto/governance talk not to be missed by Foresight fellow Jazear Brooks and Josh Tan - Feb 12, 12:30 PM PST
They will speak about the intersection of The Meta Governance Project (metagov.org/) research and Sifchain’s (sifchain.finance/) governance.
www.crowdcast.io/e/sifchain--metagovernance
Sifchain + Metagovernance Project Seminar - Crowdcast
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We are excited to announce a seminar with Joshua Tan, PhD student in AI at Oxford and co-founder of The Metagovernance Project and Sifchain's very own Jazear Brooks.Our Health-Extension and Biotech videos, all available in one playlist.
We are interested in your thoughts, and in knowing which other speakers you may want to see invited.
Check out future speakers of the 2021 Health Extension Program: foresight.org/biotech-health-extension-program/
We are launching a new program format to deepen collaboration towards flourishing futures.
Toby Ord, Future of Humanity Institute, and Allison Duettmann, Foresight, will be giving the opening keynotes of the XHope Program, February 25, Online.
EXISTENTIAL HOPE GROUP: PROGRAM
The Existential Hope group is a virtual community of scientists, innovators, scholars, philosophers, activists, artists, and more - who collaborate on seeking crucial opportunities for humanity to steer towards flourishing futures.
Group participants can find each other, exchange opportunities to collaborate, submit topics for exploration to the group, propose and organize discussions.
Regular group meetings are every fourth Thursday of the month, plus bonus meetings, plus monthly Foresight-wide socials in gather.town.
EXISTENTIAL HOPE 2021 (Full Keynote Program here: foresight.org/existential-hope/ more to come)
Toby Ord, Future of Humanity Institute
Daniel Schmachtenberger, Neurohacker Collective
Will Marshall, Planet Labs
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire
Jessy Kate Schingler, Open Lunar Foundation
Ed Boyden, MIT
Arnav Kapur, AlterEgo
Sandrine Thuret, King's College London
Primavera De Filippi, Berkman Klein Center
Tiziana Terranova, Università L'Orientale
Ytasha Womak, Author of Afrofuturism
HOW TO JOIN
The Foresight Existential Hope Group is a close-knit group of Foresight Senior Associates and Contributors. Join us as Senior Associate to collaborate towards grand futures: foresight.org/donate/membership/.
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