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Foresight Update 23.20: Swimming nanomachines - May 14, 2009Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot. Top News of the WeekSwimming nanomachinesHarvard researchers have created a new type of microscopic swimmer: a magnetized spiral that corkscrews through liquids and is able to deliver chemicals and push loads larger than itself… In this issue:
Foresight Events – Lectures Why we need FabI suspect many readers have seen Neil Gershenfeld's TED talk on fab labs, or read his book. In particular, notice the part where he comments that fabs are following the track of computers, currently in the minicomputer stage. You can see the same progression in my keynote for a SME meeting a couple of years ago (slides pdf), but I use the progression from film to instant to digital photography instead of computing… Drexler's slides postedEric Drexler has posted slides from his keynote talk at the Berkeley Nanotech Forum. More on Limits to GrowthThere was a gratifyingly large response to last Friday's post Acolytes of neo-Malthusian Apocalypticism. Acolytes of neo-Malthusian ApocalypticismWhen I was in college 35 years ago, there was a major fad of neo-Malthusian doom-mongering, led by the "Limits to Growth" book and movement. A retreat was organized from the college, and some concerned, environmentally conscious professors and students, myself included, went off for a concentrated seminar in which we educated each other about all the models and dire predictions of the coming collapse… Foresight on FastfowardradioForesight President Josh Hall will be the guest of Phil Bowermaster of the Speculist on FastFowardRadio Sunday 5/10/09 at 10PM Eastern (7 Pacific)… Ink-jet wires for solar cellsAnother step along the Moore's Law-like trend line for solar power: Ink-Jet Printing for Cheaper Solar Cells at Technology Review… —Nanodot posts by J. Storrs Hall Foresight Events – LecturesForesight LecturesMay 28-29, 2009 June 17-18, 2009 August 20-22, 2009 Foreseeing Future TechnologiesAdvancements in technologies such as nanotech, robotics, and biotech are promising to make major differences in our lives in the not-too-distant future, as the Industrial Revolution did to the agrarian world — to do for the physical world what the computer and Internet have done to the world of information. Since 1986, the Foresight Institute has been in the forefront of a worldwide community of visionaries who work to help shape these possibilities into a positive, beneficial reality. If you would like to help us understand the potential of these technologies, and influence their direction, please consider becoming a member of the Foresight community. With your support, Foresight will continue to educate the general public on these technologies and what they will mean to our society. To join: Contact ForesightThe Foresight Institute Weekly News Digest has merged with Foresight Update and is emailed every week to 15,000 individuals in more than 125 countries. Foresight Institute is a member-supported organization. We offer membership levels appropriate to meet the needs and interests of individuals and companies. To find out more about membership, follow this link: To join: If you would like to browse past issues of Foresight Update and the News Digest, follow this link: Foresight Institute is located in Menlo Labs, part of Menlo Business Park in the Palo Alto, California area. If you are seeking space for your nanotechnology or biotechnology company, please contact them and tell them you heard about them through Foresight. Foresight Institute If you were forwarded this email from a friend and would like to subscribe yourself, please follow this link and sign up for our free electronic membership. Thank you!
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