Foresight Update 23.11: Real-time quality control for nanotechnology - March 12, 2009
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Two publications in the current issue of the IOP journal Nanotechnology report techniques that may bring real-time quality control to two different nanotech fabrication methods…
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Many thanks to the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report for permission to reprint the following interview with Steve Jurvetson "Writing the Code of Life"…
This the sixth essay in a series exploring if, when, and how the Singularity will happen, why (or why not) we should care, and what, if anything, we should do about it.
Part VI: The heavily-loaded takeoff
The fastest software I ever used ran on some of the slowest computers I ever had…
U.S. Rep. Michael Honda, D-San Jose, winner of the 2005 Foresight Institute Government Prize, wrote an opinion piece for the Mercury News in which he argued "Nanotech deserves public and private sector support…
Scientists are perhaps one step closer to being able to construct nanotech electronic and photonic devices using carbon nanotube wires. Using optical near-field effects with a laser to localize heating effects, scientists were able to induce the growth of 1.4-nanometer-diameter ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotubes between the sharp tips of electrodes separated by about 200 nm…
—Nanodot posts by James Lewis and J. Storrs Hall
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April 2, 2009
Stanford Law, Science and Technology Colloquium
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Christine Peterson will speak to LLM students on legal, ethical and public policy issues in nanotechnology.
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June 17-18, 2009
Size Matters 2009: the future fields of application, opportunities and ethical challenges of nanoscience
Saarbrücken, Germany
Christine Peterson will speak on Nanotechnology & Open Source Sensing.
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