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Foresight Update 23.40: May 7, 2010Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot. In this issue:
Foresight Events – Lectures Lessons from history for technology designersLongtime Foresight friend Robert Grudin has a new book Design and Truth, just reviewed by the New York Times. The review quotes Grudin on designers:
Matterhorn sculpture demos 3D patterning at 15 nm level (IBM video)PhysOrg.com brings news and a video of a new 3D patterning technique from IBM that reaches down to 15 nm resolution which “could go even smaller”:
‘Anarchists’ try to bomb Swiss IBM nano facility (but fail)Brian Wang brings to our attention a Daily Mail article:
The Singularity is Near: the MovieDavid Cassel brings our attention to an h+ review of the long-awaited film The Singularity is Near, based on the book by Ray Kurzweil:
MIT’s Belcher uses engineered virus to split waterAngela Belcher and team at MIT have tweaked a bacterial virus to serve as a scaffolding to
Industrial robot carves metal like butter (video)From Singularity Hub, 5 Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter:
Freitas awarded first mechanosynthesis patentThe winner of the 2009 Foresight Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory), Robert A. Freitas Jr., has now been granted the first diamond mechanosynthesis patent. This is not just the first DMS patent but also, I believe, the first mechanosynthesis patent that has ever been issued. Freitas is the sole inventor on this patent, which was assigned to Zyvex because the work was done while he was a contractor for the company. Forrest Bennett explains memristorsLongtime Foresight Senior Associate and senior research scientist at Genetic Programming, Inc. has done an interview on memristors over at blog FrogHeart for those of us trying to keep up on this challenging topic. … Berkeley gets Willow Garage robot to fold towels: videoFinally, the first step has been made toward the longed-for goal of a robot which can do laundry … —Nanodot posts by Christine Peterson Foresight Events – LecturesForesight LecturesJuly 30, 2010 If you miss the early registration rate, you can get 20% off regular registration with the discount code ‘Foresight’. 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: EventsIEEE Nanotechnology Council 6th Annual Symposium Contact ForesightThe Foresight Institute Weekly News Digest has merged with Foresight Update and is emailed every week to 10,000 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: Past issues: http://www.foresight.org/publications/weekly.html Earlier issues are here.
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