From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 14:38:05 MDT
I wanted to share with the list my impressions from this year's Foresight
Conference, which ended last Sunday.
There were about 300 - 400 attendees, and the quality of presentations was
mostly good. There were few purely theoretical pie-in-sky talks (such as
mine), most of the material presented contained at least some experimental
data, and some, like the talks on gold nanoparticles for DNA detection,
already have significant practical applications.
The regulars told me that the conference is getting more and more
mainstream.
I met Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas. We had a chat about uploading.
For the abstract of my talk go to
http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT10/Abstracts/Smigrodzki/index.html.
Kary Mullis said he liked it, although obviously as a piece of speculation
it isn't really hard science. I can email the full PowerPoint document
(772kb) to anybody who's interested.
Rafal
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