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We will make progress equivalent to that of the whole 20th century in the next 15 years," declared information technology entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, at a 2002 Foresight Institute conference. The Internet has changed the world, economically and politically, but compared to what's coming in the field of nanoscience, we ain't seen nothing yet," said Christine Peterson, president of the Palo Alto-based Foresight Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that formed in 1986 to monitor nanotechnology. Zyvex, for example, has pledged to support guidelines proposed by Eric Drexler's Foresight Institute that, among other provisions, require that nanoassemblers be forced to rely on broadcast transmissions, or fuel sources that don't exist in nature, and thus prevent them from running rampant. |
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