At the recent Foresight conference, the presentation "Productive Nanosystems: from Molecules to Superproducts", a collaborative work between John Burch and K. Eric Drexler was well received.
Thanks to Mark Sims, President of the nano-CAD software company, Nanorex, the Foresight Institute has a $10,000 challenge grant running through November 15, 2004 with the aim of expanding on these animation/film efforts. It takes us back to that age old axiom — "a picture is worth a thousand words"…
Here is your opportunity to support the creation of more pictures…
One can either go to this form
… and click on "not a membership, but another donation button" and enter: "Animation Completion" in the purpose of this donation field.
Or if you want to send in your donation by US post or fax print out and send in this form.
Ed. Note… Yes I know this can be viewed as blatant commercial promotion of the Foresight Institute. But on the other side of the coin is the fact that robust MNT will potentially save ~50 million lives a year. There is an old saying — "one must begin by being there". And if it takes animations and simulations to fire the imagination to get us there then I can't imagine a more noble cause deserving our support. My hat is off to Mark for understanding this. Related references:
Slide show: nanofactory Slide Show
Animated clip: Clip (warning its ~39 Mbytes).
