Comments on: Hardware –> Software http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-851795 Thu, 28 May 2009 22:50:45 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-851795 Hi, can you attribute authorship on the original posts, please? Curently, original entries are described as follows: This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 1:44 am and is filed under... No author. Now, I am willing to stipulate the possible interpretations are quite limited. Still, it is disconcerting to have to guess when an article uses terms like "my". Hi, can you attribute authorship on the original posts, please?

Curently, original entries are described as follows:
This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 1:44 am and is filed under…

No author. Now, I am willing to stipulate the possible interpretations are quite limited. Still, it is disconcerting to have to guess when an article uses terms like “my”.

]]> By: Christine Peterson http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850918 Christine Peterson Tue, 26 May 2009 18:02:21 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850918 Hi Anonymous -- I should mention that the near-term nanotech posts you mention were probably mostly by Jim Lewis, our webmaster, rather than by me. ;^) Another good way to get near-term nano news is to get up a Google Alert on the term "nanotechnology". --Chris Hi Anonymous — I should mention that the near-term nanotech posts you mention were probably mostly by Jim Lewis, our webmaster, rather than by me. ;^)
Another good way to get near-term nano news is to get up a Google Alert on the term “nanotechnology”.
–Chris

]]> By: J. Storrs Hall http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850893 J. Storrs Hall Tue, 26 May 2009 16:26:40 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850893 The role of Foresight is to help foresee the possibilities inherent in transformative technologies of all kinds. The two really major game-changers in this arena are nanotech, in its original definition of working molecular machines that can build more molecular machines, and AI. Either of these would have a major effect alone, but together their potential for remaking the world is profound. It makes little sense to consider the future focused on one and not the other. Foresight is concerned with present-day nanotech research primarily in its role as a foundation, enabler, and steps toward the ultimate thorough, detailed control over the structure of matter at the atomic scale. Near-term incremental results in nanoscale science are valuable and interesting but are not in and of themselves transformative. If you are looking for a near-term nano clipping service, we've found <a href="http://www.azonano.com/" rel="nofollow">AZoNano</a>, <a href="http://www.nanowerk.com/" rel="nofollow">NanoWerk</a>, and <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/index.php?kw=280" rel="nofollow">EurekAlert Nanotech</a> to be very good. The role of Foresight is to help foresee the possibilities inherent in transformative technologies of all kinds. The two really major game-changers in this arena are nanotech, in its original definition of working molecular machines that can build more molecular machines, and AI. Either of these would have a major effect alone, but together their potential for remaking the world is profound. It makes little sense to consider the future focused on one and not the other.

Foresight is concerned with present-day nanotech research primarily in its role as a foundation, enabler, and steps toward the ultimate thorough, detailed control over the structure of matter at the atomic scale. Near-term incremental results in nanoscale science are valuable and interesting but are not in and of themselves transformative.

If you are looking for a near-term nano clipping service, we’ve found AZoNano, NanoWerk, and EurekAlert Nanotech to be very good.

]]> By: http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850420 Mon, 25 May 2009 13:27:26 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3049#comment-850420 Lately it seems threads here are becoming more about general technology and less about nanotechnology. Foresight has been one of the main places I check in the morning for nano news. I'm sad to say that since Christine has taken her break I've been reading less and less. Lately it seems threads here are becoming more about general technology and less about nanotechnology. Foresight has been one of the main places I check in the morning for nano news. I’m sad to say that since Christine has taken her break I’ve been reading less and less.

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