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	<title>the Foresight Institute</title>
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		<title>Reynolds advocates faster nano/AI R&amp;D for safety reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Popular Mechanics, longtime Foresight friend Prof. Glenn Reynolds looks at the future of nanotech and artificial intelligence, among other things looking at safety issues, including one call that potentially dangerous technologies be relinquished.  He takes a counterintuitive stance, which we&#8217;ve discussed here at Foresight over the years:
But I wonder if that’s such a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3503</link>
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		<title>Nano PVs: cheaper or better?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Nanoclast, Dexter Johnson writes:
It seems when nanotech is applied to photovoltaics it can either boost their efficiency to new heights or it can cheapen their manufacturing process. But it never seems to provide a solution to both of these. It’s always a tradeoff: increased efficiency but difficult manufacturing processes or a cheaper production [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3499</link>
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		<title>Gallery &#8211; A joyride through the nanoscale &#8211; Image 1 &#8211; New Scientist</title>
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Gallery &#8211; A joyride through the nanoscale &#8211; Image 1 &#8211; New Scientist.
This New Scientist article has some nice images from Whitesides recent book, sort of a retake on the &#8220;Secret House&#8221; idea.
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		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3497</link>
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		<title>Technology Review:  Self-Cleaning, Super-Absorbant Solar Cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology Review: Self-Cleaning, Super-Absorbant Solar Cells.
Amorphous-silicon solar cells patterned with nanoscale domes absorb more light&#8211;and shed water and dust.
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		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3495</link>
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		<title>Moore&#8217;s Law Marches On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the loose length-scale based definition, nanotechnology has long since conquered the world: feature sizes in microprocessors have been below the 100 nanometer mark for some time, qualifying them, if anyone wanted to, to be called nanoprocessors. The latest reports and plans are mentioning 22-nanometer parts just 2 years from now:
DailyTech &#8211; AMD Desktop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3493</link>
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		<title>More Merkle at Singularity University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ted Greenwald continues his Singularity University executive program coverage over at Wired:
These days, though, Merkle is setting his sights much higher. Over the past few years he has put together a theoretical system for building diamond, atom by atom. It involves nine molecular tools and methane/hydrogen feedstock on a diamond substrate. He has analyzed all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3491</link>
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		<title>Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates.
Harnessing DNA origami to arrange CNTs.
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		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3489</link>
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		<title>Nanotechnology researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nanotechnology researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene. from nanowerk
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&#8220;You can imagine trying to peel a piece of shrink wrap off a dish to put it on a new dish &#8212; it&#8217;s going to be messy,&#8221; said lead researcher Jiwoong Park, Cornell assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology.


Inspired by previous work in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3485</link>
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		<title>Merkle on nanotech at Singularity University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ted Greenwald posted yesterday at Wired about Foresight member Ralph Merkle&#8217;s presentation on nanotechnology at the Singularity University&#8217;s first Executive Program, which has just convened over at NASA Ames here in Silicon Valley:
From there he skims through a catalog of progress — familiar example of pushing atoms into IBM logos and such on a 2D [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3481</link>
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		<title>The bad robot takeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Albany (OR) Democrat Herald:

Phone robots: Let’s all rebel
By Hasso Hering, Columnist &#124; Posted: Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:45 pm
What this country needs &#8211; even more than a shorter baseball season so the World Series doesn&#8217;t go into November &#8211; is a popular uprising against the tyranny of telephone robots.
This is how those talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3479</link>
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