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Christine Peterson – Co-Founder & Past President Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on coming powerful technologies, especially nanotechnology and life extension. She is Co-Founder and Past President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Foresight educates the public, technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects. She serves… Continue reading Officers and Staff

November 15, 2004 (Hilton Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas) Scott Mize will speak from 3:00 pm-3:30 pm on Mon., Nov 15. at the SEMI NanoForumhttp://www.semi.org/nanoforumDownload Scott Mize SEMI NanoForum presentation as a 348 K PDF file. November 11th, 2004 (The University Club of San Francisco, CA) Scott Mize will speak on “Nanotechnology and the Millennium Challenges”. CAFE – Current… Continue reading Foresight Lectures Library 2002-2004

The Great Debates of Our Time, hosted by Foresight Institute on Saturday November 19th, 2016 at 1pm.Facebook page; Alton Sun’s notes; Videos, etc. (Intro and individual debates on YouTube, transcripts, participants) Artificial Intelligence For Scientific Progress Workshop, September 30 – October 2, 2016 in Palo Alto, California.White paper, video recap on YouTube, participants Foresight Institute Breakthrough Technologies for Energy/Atomic Precision… Continue reading Foresight Institute Conferences and Workshops

Molecular Machine Bountied Brainstorm By James Boyd If you had $50 M to spend to advance progress on molecular machines, what would you spend it on?   I would spend the $50 million assembling a distributed molecular machine research program composed of multiple teams. High-Level Budget Breakdown $25 Million: Theoretical and Computational Research Grants$25 Million:… Continue reading Molecular Machine Bountied Brainstorm By James Boyd

Today’s nanotechnology harnesses current progress in chemistry, physics, materials science, and biotechnology to create novel materials that have unique properties because their structures are determined on the nanometer scale. Some of these materials have already found their ways into consumer products, such as sunscreens and stain-resistant pants. Others are being intensively researched for solutions to… Continue reading Applications

Nanotechnology draws its name from the prefix “nano”. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—a distance equal to two to twenty atoms (depending on what type of atom) laid down next to each other. Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different… Continue reading An overview of nanotechnology

A Short History of Nanotechnology 1959 Feynman gives after-dinner talk describing molecular machines building with atomic precision 1974 Taniguchi uses term “nano-technology” in paper on ion-sputter machining 1977 Drexler originates molecular nanotechnology concepts at MIT 1981 First technical paper on molecular engineering to build with atomic precision STM invented 1985 Buckyball discovered 1986 First book… Continue reading A Short History of Nanotechnology