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Month: July 2000

Vernor Vinge to speak at Foresight Gathering

from the here-comes-Singularity dept.
Vernor Vinge, author of some of the best — many would say THE best — novels on highly advanced coming technologies, will speak at the Sept 8-10 Foresight Gathering. It was Vernor who came up with the term Singularity; come hear about it from the man himself. The good news is that Vernor has stopped teaching in order to write full-time, so we should be seeing more work from him. You need to read his writing whether you like sf or not: books such as his are some of the most useful future scenarios around.

Register ASAP: John Gilmore on avoiding nanotech war

from the don't-miss-this-one dept.
Register ASAP to save $100 on the Foresight Gathering, Sept 8-10. Here's a sample: ever-controversial Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder and cypherpunk John Gilmore will speak: "I think I want to talk about how the prospect of nanotech is driving my work on intellectual property reform…If our economy is not to crash immediately after assemblers arrive (resulting in many hungry people rioting or warring), society needs to learn how to structure an economy to support the expensive part while letting the cheap part provide its benefits of broad distribution of the results…If even a third or a half of the economy is running on open source principles before assemblers start assembling more assemblers, we can probably avoid war and worldwide civil unrest." Read More for John's full message.

Life extension & Cryostasis conference report

from the where-to-stay-when-you're-REALLY-under-the-weather dept.
Miss the Alcor conference at Asilomar this year? That's unfortunate, but you can get a vague idea of what it was like from this media writeup, which doesn't have too many errors: "Mr Drexler's presence at the conference–he has become something of a media recluse–could be explained by the fact that it was organised by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is on the scientific advisory board of Alcor, best known perhaps as the largest US cryonics foundation. At its freezer facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, 38 dead people, including one Australian, are in suspended animation awaiting a miracle of future technology to bring them back to life." We prefer the term "temperaturely-challenged".

Judges named: will they pick Nanosystems Institute?

from the sooner-or-later-it-will-happen dept.
UC Santa Cruz chemist Stephanie Corchnoy brings to our attention this press release, which explains that the proposed California Nanosystems Institute is indeed one of six finalists for funding by the state, with 2:1 matching funds required from non-state sources. Of the six, three will be funded. The judges: Richard Lerner (chemist, president of Scripps); Erling Norrby (Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy); John Hennessy (electrical engineer, president of Stanford); Harry Gray (chemist, Caltech); John Brauman (chemist, Stanford). The other five proposals are in biology and computers; with three chemists in this group, does the Nanosystems Institute have a good chance, or not?

Nanotechnology news search made easier

from the metanews dept.
Jonathan Desp writes "At Atomasoft we developed a Nanotechnology News Search web page…It's several search engines that search within 300+ news magazines in science and technology. Enjoy the service!" CP: See also Nanospot, covered previously.

String Theory co-founder online on nanotech

from the mark-your-calendars dept.
"The Next Twenty Years", a series of high-tech showcases being held around the US, will be in NYC on August 3 including thoughts on nanotechnology by Michio Kaku, co-founder of string theory. I saw him give a similar talk in SF a while back, and it was pretty conservative, but he's an interesting guy. In case you don't want to go to NYC, it will be broadcast online.

Moletronics will change everything

from the I'll-have-a-mole-of-moletronics-please dept.
CPhillips reports on story from the July issue of Wired magazine: "It describes the research and potential impact of molecular electronics. Jim Tour (Rice) and Mark Reed (Yale) are the main focus of the article. The article also makes brief mention of the National Nanotechnology Initiative and the research being done at Hewlett-Packard. It's very interesting reading for lay-people like myself. This is almost enough for me to forgive Wired for Bill Joy's story!"

Applied Memetic Engineering: the IdeaVirus

from the now-it's-a-business-tool dept.
Senior Associate Jack Hughes writes: "this is the new e-book by Seth Godin on how to unleash the IdeaVirus. I think you'll find it interesting — he's giving it away for free now, but publishing it for money in hardcover come September." Warning: the download can be tricky.

Light traveling faster than c?

from the maybe-maybe-not-but-still-interesting dept.
RajayKumar writes "CNN has an article regarding light traveling faster than c. This article goes into more detail than the previous article mentioned on Nanodot. CP: The piece explains that it is not clear that the light coming out is the same light that went in, so it may not be correct to say the light exceeded c.

Gastrobot and slugbot: "flesh-eating robots"

from the is-this-really-a-good-idea dept.
Senior Associate member davesag writes "Just opened page 7 of the UK issue of this week's New Scientist and there's an article about Chew Chew the 12 wheeled flesh eating robot that uses e-coli to recharge its batteries. Is building robots that digest meat another one of those 'oh boy, wait till they get smarter and smaller' issues we need to be worried about?" Note also the slug-eating robot.

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