Foresight Institute’s Tech Tree Project
Foresight Technology Trees
Nanotech, Neurotech, Healthspan, Space, Intelligent Cooperation
There are many areas in longevity, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, private computing, and space tech that could benefit from support. For outside funding and talent it can be hard to find out how to help. To aid coordination, technology trees provide an overview of the field, existing work and open challenges.
Led by domain expert interviews, our tech tree architects are building trees to map the main areas, projects, and open challenges in longevity, atomically precise manufacturing, brain-computer interfaces, private ML, and asteroid mining. Long-term, the trees will integrate across domains.
This hackathon, with judges including Balaji Srinivasan, 1729, Evan Miyazono, Protocol Labs, Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol, is for building better tech tree mapping software. The goal is to open the trees up to crowd-sourcing and funding, so that innovators can chart desired paths through the tech forests. First prototypes with their bounties can be found below.
Molecular Machines Tree
Molecular Machines Bounties
Mechanisorption: Energy storage/carbon capture
Nanomaterials: Making non-silicon based nanomaterials to revolutionize the chip industry
Nanoparticles: Fully control methods of assembly and manipulation of nanoparticles
Neurotech Tree
Neurotech Bounties
BCI’s: More durable materials for BCI
Biomarkers : Translation of neuromarkers from lab to mobile devices
Neuroengineering : Charging batteries for implants using RF
Intelligent Cooperation Tree
Intelligent Cooperation Bounties
Privacy: Improving private Smart Contracts
Utility NFTs: Sustainable communities using NFT’s
Space Technology Tree
Space Bounties
Asteroid Mining : Get information on composition of asteroids
Terraforming : Creating large mirrors for thermal control
Terraforming : Creating super greenhouse gases from carbon and fluorine
Longevity Tree
Longevity Bounties
Dietary Control : Fasting based on biomarker state changes
Autophagy : Measuring autophagy in the body
Advanced Glycation Endproducts : Accumulation of AGE’s in the body over time
Pioneer Team
Molecular Machines
Yuanning Feng
Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University
Nobel Laureate Stoddart’s Mechanostereochemistry group
Neurotech
Maryna Polyakova
Researcher at Max Planck Institute for human cognitive and brain sciences
Intelligent Cooperation
Yingtong Lai
Senior engineer at electric coin co.
Prior Ethereum research scientist
Space
Romain Fontaine
European Space Agency
Longevity
Aaron King
Research Director, Foresight Institute
Advisors – Space Technology Tree
Creon Levit
Chief Technologist – Planet Labs
Adam Brown
Theoretical Physicist – Stanford University
Molecular Machines Tree
Eric Drexler
Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford)
David Leigh
Royal Society Research Professor, University of Manchester
Adam Marblestone
CEO, Convergent Research
Neurotech Tree
Todd Huffman
CEO at E11 Bio
David Eagleman
Stanford Professor, CEO of Neosensory
Randal Koene
Neuroengineer, Co-founder of CarbonCopies
Intelligent Cooperation Tree
Evan Miyazono
Protocol Labs Research Team Lead
Georgios Kaissis
Assistant Professor at University of Munich, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Trent McConaghy
Ocean Protocol
Chip Morningstar
Agoric
Longevity Tree
Alexander Fedintsev
Machine Learning Engineer at Wolt
Reason
CEO and Co-founder of Repair Biotechnologies
Greg Fahy
Cryobiologist, CSO and Co-founder at Intervene Immune
Christine Peterson
Co-founder of Foresight Institute
General Advisory
Amir Banifatemi
XPrize General Manager
Matthias Roder
Co-founder and managing partner at The Mindshift
Alexey Turchin
Co-founder of the Longevity Party
