By Christine Peterson, on October 21st, 2009
From The Atlantic:
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who accurately forecast the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting economic contraction, has become famous for his pessimism—he has been the gloomiest of the doomsayers…
“The question is, can the U.S. grow in a non-bubble way?” [Roubini] asked the question rhetorically, so I turned it [...]
By Christine Peterson, on October 19th, 2007
Registration for Foresight’s Nov. 3-4 Vision Weekend focused on nanotechnology and other advanced technologies — traditionally restricted to Foresight Senior Associates — is being opened to the general public this year as an experiment. Space is limited and participants are advised to register very soon.
To warm up for our Sat/Sun afternoon unconference, in the [...]
By Christine Peterson, on October 12th, 2007
This year as an experiment we are opening up a subset of seats at the Nov. 3-4 Foresight Vision Weekend to members of special groups such as Nanodot readers. The event is usually open only to Foresight Senior Associate members:
http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/2007
I encourage you to check out this event. Since it is an Unconference, you [...]
By Christine Peterson, on October 3rd, 2007
Registration is now open to new and renewing Senior Associate members; cost for Senior Associate members to attend the meeting is $65. Space is limited. Join us! —Christine
1st Foresight Unconference to Be Held November 3-4 in Silicon Valley
Event will explore nanotechnology, advanced software, life extension, future technologies
Palo Alto, CA — Foresight Nanotech [...]
By Christine Peterson, on August 16th, 2007
We are very pleased to announce the dates and location of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, to be held November 3-4 in at Yahoo! headquarters here in Silicon Valley.
We’ve learned that you demand a highly interactive meeting, so this year we’ll be experimenting with a new format including big chunks of time for the Unconference [...]
By Christine Peterson, on July 25th, 2007
Here’s a possibly fun (though certainly not easy) job related to nanotechnology that doesn’t require you to be highly technical. It’s more on the managerial/policy side:
PROGRAM MANAGER
CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) seeks a Program Manager to organize and coordinate activities, programs, [...]
By Christine Peterson, on May 9th, 2007
The Nanotechbuzz blog gets some traffic, or did, so here’s an opportunity for all you nanotech trackers out there:
Creative Weblogging is currently look for a professional blogger to take over the Nanotechbuzz blog. Obviously, applicants should have experience and knowledge about nanotechnology. However, they should also have strong writing skills with a minimum of 30 [...]
By Christine Peterson, on April 9th, 2007
Small Times reports on a meeting held in Oregon among a wide variety of nanotechnology-based business participants, at which many commercialization challenges were discussed. One was difficulties encountered with the U.S. Patent office:
Start-ups expressed frustration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Long waits for patent award decisions make it difficult for them [...]
By Christine Peterson, on January 5th, 2007
Bernie Marcus, co-founder and one of Home Depot’s largest individual shareholders, has been named “Forbes/Wolfe 2006 Nanotech Person of the Year”. I was a little surprised until I read this interview; he’s quite a visionary and is putting his money where his mouth is. Here at Foresight, we like that a lot. [...]
By Christine Peterson, on January 2nd, 2007
Nanotechnology career advice is available from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education at CareerVoyages.gov.
It’s a pretty good place to start for people who are entirely new to the field. Most of the link lists include useful sites.
A couple of areas could use additional work. The Nanotechnology — Tools and Technology section lists [...]
