The humanitarian potential is enormous, and so is the potential for misuse...can we do this responsibly?
RSS FEED IDEMS: Responsible Nanotechnology
- Molecular Manufacturing Panel
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... The first day of the Productive Nanosystems conference ends with a panel. Here's...
- Making Nanotubes Useful
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Next talk: "Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube-Based Systems: Linking Synthesis and Function" David B. Geohegan,...
- DNA Origami, Extended
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Next talk: William Shih, "From Structural DNA Nanotechnology to NMR Membrane Protein Structure"...
- Building Protein-Based Nanomaterials
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Next talk: Matthew B. Francis, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, is...
- Foresight Prize Winners
The Foresight Nanotech Institute awards prizes each year for people who've made noteworthy contributions to molecular manufacturing: a student prize, a communication prize, and two Feynman Prizes, one for theory and one for experiment (named after the physicist, who talked...
- Designing and Building Proteins
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Next talk: Alexsandr Miklos is speaking on Protein Design and Fabrication Automation. What...
- Drexler On the Roadmap
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Sixth talk: Eric Drexler. Drexler is the one who started the idea of...
- Computing for Productive Nanosystems
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Fifth talk: James Davenport, Director, Computational Science Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory. We need...
- Productive Nanosystems: Bio-Nano Approaches
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Fourth talk: Keith Firman, University of Portsmouth, UK. Title: Biological Molecular Motors for...
- Productive Nanosystems: Atomically Precise Manufacturing
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Third talk, John Randall, Zyvex: A completely different approach. Zyvex was founded to...
- Productive Nanosystems: Abiotic Biomimetic Roadmap
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... Second talk Tuesday: Chris Schafmeister: got started in protein design, designed a protein--which...
- Productive Nanosystems conference kickoff
Today and tomorrow, we're reporting on presentations at an important conference on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap. Chris Phoenix is providing live blog coverage for us... I'm here at the Productive Nanosystems conference, to hear where some very smart...
- Roadmap Unveiling
Tomorrow is the start of a two-day SME conference in Arlington, VA, on Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap... For 20 years, researchers have explored the amazing promise of atomically-precise manufacturing. Now, for the first time, the Technology Roadmap for...
- The Limits of Vision
Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week: Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer Tag: quotes
- Buzzwords for the Future
Here are a few...can you think of more? Openness - Can mean several things, including net neutrality, source code access, transparency, and general willingness to consider new ideas. Attempts by corporate marketers and government spinmeisters to co-opt the meme likely...