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08:00-010:00 PM |
Welcoming Reception
in parallel with Silent Auction, signups for tomorrow's Open Mike session and: |
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08:45-09:15 PM |
Informal Discussion with New Senior
Associates, led by Eric Drexler |
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08:30-09:00 AM |
Bagels 'n' Caffeine |
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09:00-09:30 AM |
Eric Drexler,
IMM/Foresight
That old warhorse Eric does "the vision thing"
for us, and sketches a path ahead for us as individuals
and organizations. |
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09:30-09:45 AM |
Informal discussion |
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Morning Session: |
Nanotech R&D Progress:
Let's See Some Breakthroughs
Session organized by Institute for Molecular Manufacturing |
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09:45-10:15
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Josh Hall, IMM
IMM has lured Josh away from Rutgers to full-time nano
work. Between his technical work and moderating the sci.nanotech newsgroup, Josh brings years of achievement and perspective to our look ahead. |
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10:15-10:45 AM |
Break with web surfing |
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10:45-11:15 AM |
Ralph Merkle, IMM Advisor, Xerox PARC
Along with the inside technical scoop about work at Xerox
& NASA Ames, we'll hear about Ralph's adventures in
DC, as "speaker to federal funding bureaucrats."
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11:15-11:30 AM |
Informal discussion |
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11:30 AM |
End of Silent Auction |
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11:30-12:00 PM |
Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge & IMM
"IMM: Current Status, Future Possibilities, Strategy and Tactics"
As chairman of IMM and in his job as president of Teknowledge, Neil works with R&D teams. He will invite you to co-invent the future of IMM.
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12:00-01:30
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Lunch (included) |
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Afternoon Session: |
Applications:
Session organized by Foresight Institute |
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01:30-02:00 PM |
Bob Santer, Ford
"The Automobile in the Nano World"
Bob's been looking into nanotechnology from a
transportation point of view. How much will the car of
the future look like today's? (Not much.) |
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02:00-02:30 PM |
Informal discussion |
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02:30-03:00 PM |
Pat Parker, Naval Postgraduate School
Pat's done more to get the US military to look at
nanotechnology than anyone else we know. What's the
response, Pat? Do they "get it", and if so,
what's the scenario? (Can you even tell us?) |
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03:00-03:30 PM |
Break with web surfing |
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03:30-04:00 PM |
Tom McKendree, University of Southern California & Raytheon
"Short, Medium, and Long-Term Space Development Using Nanotechnology"
Tom will sketch how to use nanotech for robust settlement of the
solar system and beyond. |
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04:00-04:15 PM |
Informal discussion |
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04:15-04:45 PM |
Jim Von Ehr, Zyvex
Zyvex is the highest-profile of the nanotech startups,
and while it's way too soon to expect results, we'll
plague him for hints on what they're up to anyway. |
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04:45-05:30 PM |
Break with web surfing |
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06:00-08:00 PM |
Optional no-host restaurant dinner.
Schmooze while indulging in California's renowned cuisine. |
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Evening Session: |
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08:00-08:30 PM |
Eric Drexler, Foresight/IMM
Web Enhancement: CritSuite as "The Other Half of
Hypertext"
Robert Lucky of Bell Labs asked something like, "If we didn't
foresee the web, what good are we?" Some of us did, and now we've
developed key features missing from today's web. Eric will flame at us
about how important this can be to our likelihood of surviving the
coming technological (and accompanying economic/political) turmoil.
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08:30-11:00 PM
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Open Mike: Your (optional) 10 minutes of fame, emceed
by Sunah Cherwin.
If Eric gets to flame, so do you: Get up and have
your say on the topic of your choice. Informal and casual, but time
limits strictly observed! Sign up early for this one. |
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08:00-09:00 AM |
IMM Senior Associate Recruitment Briefing Breakfast (sign up in advance), in parallel with: |
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08:30-09:00 AM |
Bagels 'n' Caffeine |
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Morning Session |
The Broader Picture
Session organized by Center for Constitutional Issues in
Technology |
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09:00-09:30 AM |
Philippe Van Nedervelde, Foresight
Europe
For years, the US and Japan have had it all their own way
in nanotechnology. Watch out: this is likely to end now
that Philippe is running Foresight Europe. |
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09:30-09:45 AM |
Informal discussion |
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09:45-10:15
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James C. Bennett, CCIT
Foresight co-founder and CCIT president Jim Bennett integrates technology, economics, and international politics to give us "The Politics of the Information Age." Hint: it's not what one would expect based on the same-old bombast from DC politicos. |
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10:15-10:45 AM |
Break with web surfing |
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10:45-11:15 AM |
Greg Burch, partner, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon
A very nontraditional (extropian) lawyer-environmentalist sketches an early take on legal issues affecting nanotechnology. Hint: think torts. |
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11:15-11:30 AM |
Informal discussion |
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11:30-12:00 PM |
Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute
Foresight's new Advisor, Doug, has already shown more Foresight than the rest of us put together, so we'd better listen carefully to what he's got to say today. He's probably right again. |
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12:00-01:30
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Lunch (included) |
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Afternoon Session: |
Controversies & Fusses,
Now & Soon
Session organized by Foresight Institute |
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01:30-02:00 PM |
Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future
In Time, in Newsweek, in the Wall
Street Journal: all you see is "Paul Saffo
says this, Paul Saffo says that." But with us, he
can relax and say what is too bizarre for them to hear,
right, Paul? |
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02:00-02:30 PM |
Informal discussion |
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02:30-03:00 PM |
Jim Halperin
"Didactic Science Fiction: a Tool to Prepare for
Change"
Jim's new novel The First Immortal
is likely to be the most prominent cryonics 'n' nanotech
fiction we've seen for a long time. Are you taking flak
on this, Jim, or is cryonics old news to the press by
now? |
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03:00-03:30 PM |
Break with web surfing |
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03:30-04:00 PM |
David Brin
David's new book The Transparent Society
looks at what happens under ubiquitous surveillance,
coming even before nanotechnology arrives. There's good
news and bad news. (More good news than one might
assume.) |
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04:00-04:15 PM |
Informal discussion, arguments |
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04:15-04:45 PM |
Virginia Postrel, Reason Foundation
So many Senior Associates are fans of Virginia's that we
had to lure her up here to meet us. Who knows what she'll
say; we already know it will be great, and funny too. |
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04:45-05:30 PM |
Break with web surfing; promises to call
and email |
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05:30
PM |
Dash for your plane, or hang around the
pool with the locals |
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