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>From office@foresight.org Wed Jul 23 00:16:08 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:52:48 -0800
To: office@foresight.org (Elaine Tschorn)
From: Elaine Tschorn <office@foresight.org>
Subject: Foresight Institute Electronic Newsletter
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Foresight Institute Electronic Newsletter #2
July 23, 1997

This is a quarterly email update on nanotechnology from Foresight
Institute.  To stop receiving it, send email to inform@foresight.org.

In this issue:
** Company founded to develop an assembler
** Growing mainstream acceptance of nanotechnology allows Foresight to
   focus on next stage goals **
** Promising new approach to enhancing the World Wide Web **
** Unbounding the Future available online **
** Recent Foresight news **

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** Company founded to develop an assembler **

-Zyvex, the first nanotechnology company with the explicit goal of
developing an assembler, has been founded.

Read the story in Update 29:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.3.html#anchor588503

For more details, visit the Zyvex web site:
http://www.zyvex.com/

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** Growing mainstream acceptance of nanotechnology allows Foresight to
focus on next stage goals **

Examples of the growing mainstream acceptance of nanotechnology include the
following:

-Nanotechnology researchers gain recognition:

Newsweek names K. Eric Drexler to its "Century Club":
http://www.foresight.org/News/News1.html#anchor272496

Discover Magazine awards for technological innovation recognize
nanotechnology researchers James Gimzewski and Nadrian C. Seeman in the
category of "emerging technology":
http://www.foresight.org/News/News1.html#anchor532599
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.1.html#anchor796573

For more details on how the media are responding to progress in
nanotechnology, see two most recent Media Watch columns:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.4.html#anchor1159804
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.4.html#anchor436046

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-Leading researchers to speak at Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular
Nanotechnology in November:

For details, read the articles at:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.1.html#anchor218362
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.1.html#anchor413407

The home page for the conference is at:
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Nano5.html

A "Tutorial on Critical Enabling Technologies for Nanotechnology" will be
available immediately before the conference:
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Tutorial.html

Registration information for the Conference and Tutorial, including  online
registration, is available at:
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/RegInfo.html

Beginning next month, abstracts accepted for the conference will be posted at:
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Abstracts/

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-Accelerating progress in enabling technologies:

The best overview of the progress toward nanotechnology along a broad range
of fronts can be obtained from Jeffrey Soreff's "Recent Progress" columns
in the Foresight Update. His two most recent columns can be found at:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.3.html#anchor325808
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.3.html#anchor711279

Topics covered include: Advances in Parallel Techniques, Advances in
Sequential Techniques, Catalytic Structures, Mechanochemistry, Components
and Assembly Techniques, Novel Features, Protein Motors, Single Molecule
Diagnostics, Single Electronics in Esprit, Abzymes

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-These "mainstream" endorsements of nanotechnology have caused Foresight's
leadership to conclude that it is time for Foresight to take on the more
long range issues of the effects of mature nanotechnology upon society and
individuals. See:

Chris Peterson's "Inside Foresight" column:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.2.html#anchor1010717

Report on Eric Drexler's talk at the May 1997 Senior Associates Gathering:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.2.html#anchor205008

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** Promising new approach to enhancing the World Wide Web **

Excellent results from a new approach to Foresight's project to enhance the
World Wide Web to develop a true hypertext publishing system to facilitate
evolving social knowledge:
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/index.html#anchor360718
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/M1Plus.html

An overview of this project is available at:
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/index.html
More background is available at:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.2.html#anchor53292

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** Unbounding the Future available online **

"The nanotechnology book to give your mom," Unbounding the Future: the
Nanotechnology Revolution, has been prepared for the Web. We have not
finished all the linking and other finishing details, but you can access
the book at:
http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/index.html

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** Recent Foresight news **

-Since our first electronic newsletter this past March was sent, two issues
of Foresight Update have been published.

Table of Contents of Update 28:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.1.html
Table of Contents of Update 29:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/index.html

A few headlines from these issues:

Breakthrough-Scale Design For a Molecular Robotic "Hand":
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.1.html#anchor1228823

Award For Leading Nanotechnology Student:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.2.html#anchor372353

Changes in Foresight Board:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.2.html#anchor585042

MEMS Technology: "Training Wheels for Nanotechnology"?:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.1.html#anchor580093

Searching For Nanocritics:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.5.html#anchor1246034

Links to Websites emphasizing molecular manufacturing, scanning probe
miscroscopy, applications of nanotechnology to space, and molecular
modeling:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update28/Update28.2.html#anchor133730
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update29/Update29.5.html#anchor528903

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-Some places on the Foresight Web site to watch for a few of the most
significant developments between issues of Update and this newsletter:

"What's New at this Site" lists the items that have been added each month:
http://www.foresight.org/WhatsNew/index.html

"Selected Headlines" are developments of exceptional significance for the
development of nanotechnology:
http://www.foresight.org/News/index.html#anchor1389651

News of Foresight Institute and its leadership:
http://www.foresight.org/News/index.html#anchor1425374

Announcements of meetings and other events:
http://www.foresight.org/News/index.html#anchor1454914

-To help visitors to the Foresight Web site access the basic literature on
preparing for molecular nanotechnology and other advanced technologies:

Last year, Russell Whitaker set up the online version of Engines of
Creation at:
http://www.asiapac.com/EnginesOfCreation/
Recently this work has been mirrored on the Foresight Web site at:
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html
Also, Eric Drexler's essay on Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of
Knowledge is available at:
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/HPEK1.html

-All but four of the back issues of Update are available at the Foresight
Web site. The links can be found at:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Publications.html
We expect to have the remaining back issues available in a few months.

-It is now possible to use your credit card to register on line:

for the Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology:
https://www.MediaCity.com/secure/Foresight/RegEForm.html

to become a Senior Associate:
https://www.MediaCity.com/secure/Foresight/AppForm.html

To play a key role in Foresight's efforts, see:
http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/index.html
for more information about Foresight's Senior Associates program.




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