What does FI stand for?

Foresight Institute

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The importance of the examination and study of those consequences cannot be overstated, and Drexler formed the Foresight Institute in an attempt to grapple with many of these issues.

Engines of Creation (Book Reviews)

To help ensure that the accidental creation of a gray-goo nanomachine remains a practical impossibility, Drexler's Foresight Institute, a nonprofit organization he founded to "help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies," has prescribed guidelines for the safe development of NT.

Molecular nanotechnology and national security

OSI hoped that the usage of the label "open source," a term suggested by Peterson of the Foresight Institute at the strategy session, would eliminate ambiguity, particularly for individuals who perceive "free software" as anti-commercial.

Defining open source systems

Pro-Act, AgBioworld, Biotechnology Progress, Foresight Institute, the Progress Freedom Foundation and other industry groups that desire accelerated scientific progress acknowledge that the greatest: threat to technologic progress comes not just from environmental groups, but from a small faction of the scientific community -- where one voice stands out.

Technotopia and the death of nature. (Clones, Supercomputers and ...

The scope of changes that nanoscience could bring is probably best summed up by Christine Peterson, president of the Palo Alto-based Foresight Institute, a nonprofit group formed in 1986 to monitor nanotechnology.

LETTER

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.

Downsizing

One organization that has supported the effort over the years is the nonprofit organization Foresight Institute at http://www.

BIRD-DOGGIN 'THE INTERNET: Think small! Nanotechnology Comes of Age

One organization that has supported the effort over the years is the nonprofit organization Foresight Institute at http://www.

BIRD - DOGGIN'THE INTERNET