Speaking as someone who runs a non-profit (foresight.org, nanodot.org), what most non-profits need desperately is consistently-available trouble-shooting and systems administration (i.e. boring stuff), to keep their machines working. Only after that is in place can they take on more-ambitious projects, and those are sometimes given as a treat to the person who does the boring stuff. Only a few nonprofits (like us) try to do fun, ambitious new software (crit.org, etc).
Eric Raymond, hemos, Tim O'Reilly, Marvin Minsky, Eric Drexler, Bill Joy and many others will be discussing this topic at a conference May 19-21 in Palo Alto called Confronting Singularity.
Apologies in advance for those who cannot afford to attend this meeting. We hope later to have one that is more affordable.
Nanomedicine FAQ and $40K challenge grants
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A higher-level page on this topic and book is at: http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine
This includes a FAQ; links to other nanomedicine sites including art, author interview, and technical papers; and a writeup on the two challenge grants totalling $40K which helped get the first book written and the second one started. (Foresight is 501c3, so donations to the project are tax-deductible in the U.S. under the usual rules. Your help is welcome!)
The article says "Joy is less clear on how such a scenario could be prevented. When asked how he personally would stop this progression, he stumbled."
One thing Bill is doing about this is coming to the "Confronting Singularity" event, May 19-21, in Palo Alto, where we will be brainstorming on this very issue: http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/spring2000
Eric Raymond has also confirmed. Also Tim O'Reilly. Hemos said he will come if he can.
By far the most clueful work on the future of human genetic engineering is that of Gregory Stock at UCLA Medical, who organized the first "Engineering the Human Germline Symposium". http://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/gregory.html http://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/report.html
Greg also gives insightful interviews and talks on what is really coming, and when, which in his opinion is soon. Doing a search on his name will bring up a list of these. He also wrote an sf book, "Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism". He is one of those rare people who can both interact highly successfully with mainstream science and also communicate well with the public.
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Speaking as someone who runs a non-profit (foresight.org, nanodot.org), what most non-profits need desperately is consistently-available trouble-shooting and systems administration (i.e. boring stuff), to keep their machines working. Only after that is in place can they take on more-ambitious projects, and those are sometimes given as a treat to the person who does the boring stuff. Only a few nonprofits (like us) try to do fun, ambitious new software (crit.org, etc).
Eric Raymond, hemos, Tim O'Reilly, Marvin Minsky, Eric Drexler, Bill Joy and many others will be discussing this topic at a conference May 19-21 in Palo Alto called Confronting Singularity.
Apologies in advance for those who cannot afford to attend this meeting. We hope later to have one that is more affordable.
A higher-level page on this topic and book is at:
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine
This includes a FAQ; links to other nanomedicine sites including art, author interview, and technical papers; and a writeup on the two challenge grants totalling $40K which helped get the first book written and the second one started. (Foresight is 501c3, so donations to the project are tax-deductible in the U.S. under the usual rules. Your help is welcome!)
The article says "Joy is less clear on how such a scenario could be prevented. When asked how he personally would stop this progression, he stumbled."
One thing Bill is doing about this is coming to the "Confronting Singularity" event, May 19-21, in Palo Alto, where we will be brainstorming on this very issue: http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/spring2000
Eric Raymond has also confirmed. Also Tim O'Reilly. Hemos said he will come if he can.
By far the most clueful work on the future of human genetic engineering is that of Gregory Stock at UCLA Medical, who organized the first "Engineering the Human Germline Symposium".
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/gregory.html
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/huge/report.html
Greg also gives insightful interviews and talks on what is really coming, and when, which in his opinion is soon. Doing a search on his name will bring up a list of these. He also wrote an sf book, "Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism". He is one of those rare people who can both interact highly successfully with mainstream science and also communicate well with the public.
Foresight has nanotech attaches:
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and also office-suitable wall art:
http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/Images/MolArt.
These are sent as "thank-you gifts" to higher-level donors.