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        Liveblogging the Foresight Vision Weekend

        The Foresight Vision Weekend is off-the-record, so I’m not able to do real liveblogging. At the moment, we’re listening to Patrick Hopkins speak on “Who Will Hate Nanotechnology and Why?” There have been many great talks, but I’ll select just one as an example. Yesterday we heard from Peter Diamandis, Chairman of the X Prize… Continue reading Liveblogging the Foresight Vision Weekend

        Nanotech podcast: Foresight on infoTalk

        Whether you’re an experienced podcast listener or a newbie trying it for the first time, check out Foresight president Scott Mize on infoTalk — “Download the fresh voices of Silicon Valley” — hosted by alpha-podcaster John Furrier.

        Nanotech abstracts and Feynman Prize nominations due July 31

        (This version of our conference desciption emphasizes the Research days. –CP) Researchers doing groundbreaking work in nanotechnology, or who have innovative scientific results relevant to emerging nanotech, are encouraged to submit abstracts by July 31, 2005, for presentation at the 13th Foresight Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology. Unlike special-topic meetings, the Foresight Conference series covers the… Continue reading Nanotech abstracts and Feynman Prize nominations due July 31

        Nanotech Communication Prize deadline July 31

        To promote responsible coverage and assist society in making informed decisions about advanced nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing, Foresight Institute has established a communication prize. The nomination deadline for the 2004 Foresight Institute Prize in Communication is July 31.

        2003 Advocate of the Year: Steve Jurvetson

        Foresight Senior Associate Steve Jurvetson, a leading nanotech venture capitalist and frequent speaker at Foresight events, has been named Small Times Magazine 2003 Advocate of the Year. "…he is nevertheless one of a small group of VCs happy to associate with the sector's most far-thinking members. He is hardly averse to being quoted speaking of nanobots floating in human bloodstreams and other scenarios considered way too long-term for VC involvement." Steve's suggestion for the NNI Grand Challenge? "Whether conceptualized as a universal assembler, a nanoforge, or a matter compiler, I think the `moon-shotí goal for 2025 should be the realization of the digital control of matter, and all of the ancillary industries, capabilities, and learning that would engender." We at Foresight like Steve even more than Small Times does.

        Young nanotechnologists reach finals of ExploraVision competition

        from the You-go,-girls! dept.
        According to an article in the Tri-Valley Herald ("Students in finals of science competition", by Rebecca Emmerich, 20 March 2002), a local newspaper for the city of Dublin, California, a team of four fifth-grade students at the Quarry Lane School in Dublin have been named regional winners in the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision competition. Their entry was a conceptual design for a "Nano Snippit-bot", a medical nanorobot that would operate in swarms to cut off the small blood vessels supplying cancer tumors. Their entry was one of only 24 selected from among those submitted by 4200 teams comprising 13,000 students from the United States and Canada to advance to the final round of the competition.

        Two of the ten-year-olds on the Quarry Lane School nano-design team, Alejandra Dean and Nicole Rumore, have shown a strong interest in nanomedical robotics. In 2000, they and two other third-grade students at the Dorris Eaton School in Walnut Creek entered the design for a "Nano FatBuster" to fight atherosclerosis and heart disease; their visit with Foresight President Chris Peterson to gather information for the project was described in Foresight Update #42 (September 2000). The Nano FatBuster design also fared well: Out of 12,000 contestants, the quartet from Dorris Eaton School received an Honorable Mention Award. Only 2,000 of those were awarded.

        Foresight applauds the dedication of Ms. Dean and Ms. Rumore, and wishes them and their team the best of luck in the final round of this yearís ExploraVision competition.

        Upcoming speaking engagements by Drexler, Peterson

        from the Plan-ahead dept.
        Upcoming speaking engagements by Foresight Chair K. Eric Drexler and President Chris Peterson include:

        Kurzweil, Gilmore join Foresight Board of Advisors

        from the brain-trust dept.
        Foresight Institute is pleased to announce that Ray Kurzweil, noted author, inventor and technologist, and John Gilmore, an equally-distinguished computer expert and open-source advocate, have joined the Foresight Instituteís Board of Advisors.

        "I'm excited to strengthen my relationship with the Foresight Institute, an organization that has been contributing important insights into multifarious intersecting technological revolutions, while addressing how best to foster their promise while avoiding their peril," Kurzweil said.

        "Foresight has been advising me on the social impacts of technology for more than a decade," said Gilmore. "I'm pleased to be able to advise Foresight in areas where I happen to know more. We've been talking about successful business models that don't limit peoples' right to make copies. We're also seeking to understand the conflicts between absolute intellectual property protection and our society's foundational rights of inquiry, expression, and competition."

        More information about the new Foresight Advisors can be found on the home pages of John Gilmore and Ray Kurzweil.

        Foresight Update 47 available on the web

        The latest issue of Foresight Update, our quarterly newsletter, is now available online. Foresight Update 47 offers coverage of the Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology in November 2001, as well as nanotech-related news from across the United States and around the world. The issue also contains a new article on nanomedicine ("Volumetric Cellular Intrusiveness of Medical Nanorobots") by Robert A. Freitas Jr.

        More on nanotech initiatives in Taiwan, mainland China

        from the World-Watch dept.
        A brief item from a Small Times correspondent in Taiwan ("Taiwan focuses on nanotechnology, competes and cooperates with China", by Jen Lin-Liu, 9 January 2002) provides additional information on the countryís developing national initiative to concentrate its efforts on nanotechnology. Taiwan has designated nanotechnology as one of three new industries that they will focus on. The other two are information technology and biotechnology. The article also notes that while the governments of Taiwan and mainland China may be rivals politically, nanotechnology could be one area where they can cooperate.

        Recent nanotech-related activity in Taiwan and China was noted here on 7 January 2002, and on 20 November and 18 December 2001.

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