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A discounted rate of $99 plus tax has been negotiated with the Sheraton Palo Alto for the nights of January 15 through 17, based on availability. Please reserve your room as soon as possible and mention Foresight Institute in order to secure this special rate.
Reservations can be made by calling the hotel reservations department direct at 1-650-328-2800 or 1-800-325-3535, or via email at SheratonReservations@pahotel.com. Reservations made via email must include the following: Guest Name, Arrival/Departure Date, Address, Phone # & Name of Group (Foresight Institute). To guarantee a reservation, one must give a credit card number and expiration date.
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Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular
Manufacturing and AGI
Join us in for an exciting conference focused on the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and general Artificial Intelligence and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Foresight. Register online here. The two day conference rate is $175 with discounts for early registration!
Several rapidly-developing technologies have the potential to undergo an exponential takeoff in the next few decades, causing as much of an impact on economy and society as the computer and networking did in the past few. Chief among these are molecular manufacturing and artificial general intelligence (AGI). Key in the takeoff phenomenon will be the establishment of strong positive feedback loops within and between the technologies. Positive feedback loops leading to exponential growth are nothing new to economic systems. At issue is the value of the exponent: since the Industrial Revolution, economies have expanded at rates of up to 7% per year; however, computing capability has been expanding at rates up to 70% per year, in accordance with Moore's Law. If manufacturing and intellectual work shifted into this mode, the impact on the economy and society would be profound. The purpose of this symposium is to examine the mechanisms by which this might happen, and its likely effects.
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Feynman Prize Winners
Oscar Custance
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Feynman Prize Winner
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Robert Freitas
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Feynman Prize Winner
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Confirmed Speakers
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J. Storrs Hall
President, Foresight Institute
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Ralph Merkle
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
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Hod Lipson
Cornell University
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Larry Millstein
Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
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Robin Hanson
George Mason University
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Paul Saffo
Stanford University
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David Friedman
Santa Clara University
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Michael Anissimov
Singularity Institute for AI
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Kartik Gada
Reliance GP
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Brian Wang
Next Big Future .com
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Monica Anderson
Syntience
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Salim Ismail
Executive Director, Singularity University
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Foresight Senior Associates
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Foresight's Senior Associates are a community working to guide nanotechnology to improve the human condition and the environment. Not content to take a passive role, they step up to actually participate in Foresight's work to maximize and spread the benefits of nanotech while minimizing its downsides.
Senior Associates come from a wide variety of backgrounds, professions, and home countries. Most have some technical background and work in technology or science, but we also have members who are architects, artists, economists, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, ethicists, full-time parents, futurists, investors, laborers, lawyers and law professors, management consultants, marketing, military, ministers, non-profit executives, philosophers, pilots, poets, PR professionals, professors, psychologists, sales, small business owners, sociologists, students, teachers, writers, venture capitalists, and a Viscount.
Most Senior Associates are based in the U.S., but a growing number of members come from around the world including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.K.
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Topics
| Roadmaps to Nanotechnology |
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| Feynman's Path |
| A top-down roadmap |
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| Roadmaps to general Artificial Intelligence |
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| Robotics |
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| Economic effects |
| Early Retirement |
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| Autogeny |
| Principles underlying exponential manufacturing and intelligence |
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| Additive manufacturing |
| A roadmap to nanofactories |
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| Open source in manufacturing and AI |
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| Accelerating change |
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| Space development |
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