Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: October 16, 2008
Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot.
Top Nano News of the Week
Will "blocking patents" delay nanotech advances, as has happened with biotech medical advances? A Canadian non-profit group named The Innovation Partnership has released a report…
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Christine Peterson passes along this news from the quarterly update of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) as something worth considering: "Foresight members and Nanodot readers may wish to join this collaborative forecasting effort." The IFTF announced their First Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Platform…
Nanotech applications using nanoparticles to deliver drugs in the body may have to add another dimension to their design considerations—different chemical surfaces covering a nanoparticle can attract different types of blood proteins to coat the nanoparticle, which might affect how the nanoparticle moves through the body and where it ends up…
Nanotech methods for making very small electronic devices may benefit from a new ability to make block copolymers self-assemble into square arrays…
Dutch scientists have demonstrated controlling the motion of an atomic scale mechanical device, although whether more complex nanotech devices could be controlled by the mechanism at work here remains to be seen. Upon exposure to electrons from an STM tip, pairs of platinum atoms on a germanium surface can be made to pivot on one atom, swinging back and forth like a flipper on a pinball machine…
—Nanodot posts by James Lewis
Foresight Events – Convergence08, Lectures
November 15-16, 2008
Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Revolutions to be Explored at Convergence08 Unconference - Foresight Vision Weekend
Mountain View, California
On November 15-16, 2008, the world's most dangerous ideas will collide in Mountain View, California. Convergence08 examines the world-changing possibilities of NANOTECH and the life-changing promises of BIOTECH. It is the premier forum for debate and exploration of COGTECH ethics, and ground zero of the past and future INFOTECH revolution. Convergence08 is an innovative, lively unconference, the first and only forum dedicated to NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) technologies
For more information, see the press release. This event will serve as Foresight's Vision Weekend for 2008.
Registration details available at http://www.convergence08.org/registration.
Foresight Lectures
October 17, 2008
Bay Area Future Salon
Palo Alto, California
Christine Peterson will speak on "Open Source Sensing: Using open source & nanotechnology to reduce surveillance & head off Iraq-style wars."
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October 24, 2008
Singularity Summit Emerging Tech Workshop
San Jose, California
Christine Peterson will be a panelist on nanotechnology.
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Opportunity, Risk, Leadership
October 25, 2008
Montgomery Theater, San Jose, CA
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National Nano Engineering Conference 2008
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November 12-13, 2008
The Colonnade Hotel, Boston, MA
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The National Nano Engineering Conference 2008 (NNEC) is the premier event focused on current and future developments in engineering innovations at the nanoscale, as well as the commercialization of nanotechnology.
Presentations on new technologies and their commercial applications in the following disciplines:
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