Foresight Kudos Archives

Gaming the Future: The Book!

Foresight 1999 Distinguished Student wins Galactic Grant Competition

Technology developed by Nanobiosym, founded by Anita Goel, to enable personalized diagnostic testing won the Grand Prize of the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE in 2013, and this month was awarded the top prize in the Galactic Grant Competition.

Foresight Institute Awards Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology to Amanda S. Barnard, Joseph W. Lyding

The Theory Prize was given for research into diamond nanoparticles; the Experimental Prize was given for development of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) technology.

Notes for 400 hours of Richard Feynman’s Hughes Lectures

While a consultant for Hughes Aircraft Company from 1966 through 1971, Richard Feynman delivered about two hundred lectures that were available only to Hughes employees. Unfortunately these lectures were never recorded. An attendee has now released 1000 pages of notes he took and transcribed from these lectures.

Foresight Advisor Doug Engelbart, 1925-2013, will be greatly missed

The visionary technologist who invented the computer mouse and hypertext linking, and helped bring about the Information Revolution joined Foresight in advocating online discussion and argumentation systems for exploring emerging technologies.

Roadmap to an abundant future #1 on Amazon and BarnesAndNoble

A new book documenting tremendous strides toward a better future reached #1 on both Amazon and BarnesAndNoble.

Holiday Greetings from Foresight!

Foresight announces election of new president Larry Millstein; schedules “Meet The President: Dinner Reception” Monday 12/12, 6:30pm @ Don Giovanni’s in Mountain View, CA; kicks off Annual Challenge Grant – donate this month for double the value to Foresight!

Deadline THIS FRIDAY for early rate on Open Science Summit

Excellent lineup of speakers again this year for the Open Science Summit, Oct. 22-23, and you can get in for only $100 if you register by this Friday: http://opensciencesummit.com Hope to see you there! —Christine Peterson, President, Foresight Institute

Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

June 25-26, 2011 Mountain View, California https://foresight.org/reunion/ Thanks to all for a successful summer conference! We’re still hearing about some great connections and synergies made at the gathering that will help further transformative nanotech. With the addition of NASA-Ames Singularity University grad students, as well as 20Under20 Thiel Fellows, there was standing room only on… Continue reading Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

Foresight's recent past president honored by his undergraduate university

Foresight’s recent past president J. Storrs “Josh” Hall was awarded the 2011 Achievement Award in the Sciences from his undergraduate alma mater Drew University: … During his subsequent graduate studies at Rutgers University, Hall found the field of nanotechnology. His first book, Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology (Prometheus 2005), won the Foresight Institute’s Communications Prize… Continue reading Foresight's recent past president honored by his undergraduate university

Foresight@Google: Full Program of Speakers posted!

We are proud to announce our final conference program for Foresight@Google‘s 25th Anniversary Conference Celebration, held June 25-26 in Mountain View, CA. For $50 off registration use code: NANODOT This weekend – full of plenary talks, panels, and breakout sessions – is a unique opportunity to be stimulated, enlightened and inspired by direct interaction with… Continue reading Foresight@Google: Full Program of Speakers posted!