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Thank you,
@protocollabs
for doubling our MapsMap Prize to $60k!
Help us build an app for crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding maps of problems, technologies, or scientific fields.
Submission deadline March 1:
Office hour January 25:
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Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation
We hear from
@Zooko
of
@zcash
&
@1HowardWu
of
@AleoHQ
about Zero-Knowledge Proofs, cryptographic techniques that can be employed to bring provable privacy and scalability. With full seminar summary!
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Casey Handmer explores the scientific, technological, and logistical hurdles that make Mars such a challenging destination; and offers an insider's perspective on our journey towards making human life sustainable on Mars.
@CJHandmer
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Foresight Institute Announces 2021 Feynman Prize Winners - The prestigious nanotechnology award goes to Anne-Sophie Duwez (UL) & Kendall N. Houk (UCLA). The student award goes to Yuanning Feng (NU).
@uclachem
@YuanningFeng
@UniversiteLiege
@NUChemistry
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Apply to Foresight’s AI Safety Grant Program covering the following categories:
Neurotechnology and Whole Brain Emulation for AI safety
Security and cryptography approaches for AI security
Safe and beneficial multipolar AI scenarios
Apply here:
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Foresight Institute, Vita DAO
@vita_dao
, and the Methuselah Foundation
@mfoundation
, are excited to announce The Longevity Prize!
This crowdsourced prize series aims to generate proposals, experiments, and collaborations in longevity research.
Apply:
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Giulio Ragazzon,
@giuliosflask
– Driven Chemical Processes. He is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Driven Chemical Processes. His interests involve photochemistry to molecular machines, self-assembling systems and nanomaterials.
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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our 2022 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize Winners! Sergei V. Kalinin
@Sergei_Imaging
for Experimental Work, James R. Chelikowsky for Theory, and Dr. Emanuele Pennocchio
@EPenocchio
Distinguished Student Award 🎉
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Thank you to everyone who came to our De-Sci Salon! We had a great time co-hosting with
@vita_dao
+
@athena_DAO_
and discussing how to make science more open, incentivized, and community-driven. See you at the next one!
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Introducing the Million Molecule Challenge: C Elegans Lifespan Prize.
The aim? To incentivize the discovery of pathways & combinations that extend both the lifespan and healthspan of C. elegans. Information:
@longevityprize
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Thank you to
@moonrabbitAZ
for supporting our 2022 Foresight Fellows, helping advance research in longevity and healthspan! Moon Rabbit is a scalable web3 network tailored to accelerate innovation & acceleration of
#longevity
industry!
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED OUR LONGEVITY FRONTIERS WORKSHOP IN SAN FRANCISCO 👾
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Foresight's Longevity Group welcomed
@drmichaellevin
, a distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University. Dr. Levin discussed diverse intelligence, emergent cognition, and the future of biomedicine.
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New seminar summary!
David Leigh’s work led him to analyze how biological molecular machines behave and copy their fundamental philosophy using artificial constructs. His unbiased approach does not presuppose any definite end goal.
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Members of the global DeSci ecosystem gathered at DevCon Bogota over the weekend. In partnership with gathered the members of the global DeSci ecosystem. In partnership with
@Molecule_dao
@vita_dao
@bio_xyz
@RipioApp
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Excited for
@sifchain
+
@agoric
seminar happening tomorrow with our dear
@marksammiller
, Foresight Research Fellow in Computation, and
@JazearBrooks
Foresight Fellow in Decentralized Market Design.
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We're collaborating with VitaDAO,
@vita_dao
, Methuselah,
@mfoundation
, and ,
@LifespanIO
, on Longevity Biotech prizes. These awards celebrate progress in Longevity research – with the aim of extending human healthspan. Learn more:
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Edge Esmerelda is in full swing!
@amarblestone
-
@Convergent_FROs
@juanbenet
Danielle Andrezejewski -
@protocollabs
@junaxup
Tickets here:
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Tune in for the live announcement of The Longevity Prize with
@vita_dao
, and the
@mfoundation
at 9 am PT on our Youtube channel to discover upcoming Longevity Prizes and meet the judges: .
More about the Prize: .
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Foresight's Crypto, Security & AI Workshop is coming up!
Contribute to novel insights and make new friends in what we hope will grow into a nascent community spanning three impactful fields.
Apply:
Agenda:
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Trent Mcconaghy from Ocean Protocol - the privacy preserving data tool for AI - is speaking at our 2023 Vision Weekends. Have you got your tickets yet?! Early bird ticket sales close SOON.
@oceanprotocol
@trentmc0
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A good day for longevity! Congratulations to Steve Horvath, for his role as senior scientist at Altos Labs, and for
@MartinBJensen
&
@foresightinst
accelerator project Daniel Ives for being featured in
@techreview
on new longevity moonshots.
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Check out the latest video from Foresight's Space Tech group: a virtual tour of the wonderful Space Gallery at Future Ventures, led by Steve Jurvetson!
@FutureJurvetson
.
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How will
#Dweb
,
#DeSci
,
#NFTs
,
#zkps
& lex cryptographia reinvent our economy? Our “Cryptocommerce & Web 3”panel @ Vision Weekend.
@brewster_kahle
,
@internetarchive
@zooko
,
@ElectricCoinCo
@zmanian
, Cosmos
@kate_sills
,
@agoric
@JazearBrooks
,
@sifchain
@dustyweb
,
@spritelyproject
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Congratulations, 2024 Nanotech Fellows! Benjamin Roberts, Siyuan Wang, Matteo Guareschi, Martin Power, Emanuele Penocchio,
@EPenocchio
, Shuntaro Amano,
@ShuntaroAmano
, & Chris Wintersinger,
@Cwintersinger
.
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Are you driving progress in longevity? Led by
@vita_dao
, and thanks to generous donations by the
@gitcoin
community matched by
@vitalikbuterin
@vita_dao
and
@StefanDGeorge
, we’re co-iniating crowd-sourced longevity prizes soon! Follow
@longevityprize
to stay up to date!
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Vision Weekends 2022 are live!
Join us in a castle outside of Paris or in SF!
Our annual festivals unites top talent across technologies to burst their tech silos and plan for flourishing futures!
50+ presenters, agenda, tickets & application:
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We have the most inspiring line up of Speakers this year! Check out our draft schedules for our 2022 Vision Weekends.
More info & tickets here:
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We are proud to announce the 2023 Feynman Prize winners, honoring exceptional advancements in nanotechnology:
Theory Prize: Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko
Experiment Prize: Prof. James J. Collins
Distinguished Student Award: Qiancheng Xiong
Press release:
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Jules Hedges–Compositional Game Theory: Towards Incentives Modelling at Scale. This way of modelling interactions of strategic agents is inherently scalable.
@_julesh_
discusses what it is.
Apply to our seminars
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Winners of the MapsMap Challenge have been announced! The hackathon participants were tasked with creating a fun app that enables open-source collaboration on problem maps through crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
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A huge congratulations to
@ZAshbridge
@FieldenStephen
@YansongRen
for becoming 2023 Foresight Molecular Machines Fellows. Spectacular stuff! 💜
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Our 3 part privacy podcast series,
#ShieldedTransactions
, (sponsored by
@ZcashFoundation
) examines the increasing surveillance of contemporary society, and the effective tech solutions that can help change that.
Coming August 5th to our YouTube channel!
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Podcast: DeSci & the Future of Discovery – Austin Next.
This episode discusses challenges of traditional scientific models, the rise of alternative approaches, amongst others.
@AustinNxPodcast
@seemaychou
@vincentweisser
@allisondman
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“Humans play with social rules - that way we can test the boundaries without actually violating the rules.”
In this podcast episode
@robinhanson
discusses his book “The Elephant In The Brain”. Listen in all the regular players or here:
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Will Dweb, DeSci, NFTs, ZKPs & Lex Cryptographia impact your life?
Listen to our latest podcast with Kate Sills (
@kate_sills
), Zaki Manian (
@zmanian
), Jazear Brooks (
@JazearBrooks
), Christine Webber (
@dustyweb
) and Josh Tan (
@joshuaztan
) to find out!
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The SENS Research Center in Mountain View is opening their doors to celebrate their recent building expansion on June 23rd, 4-8pm!
RSVP here:
@senstweet
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Curious what's been going on at Foresight? Check out our May Newsletter for updates on events, fellows, and jobs!
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How can we Reverse Aging and Improve Cognition?
Join us for Vision Weekend 2021: Dec 4 & 5 (US) to Dec 11 & 12 (Europe) to learn more about Biotech and Health Extension! Speakers this year include among others
@soniaarrison
,
@dives86
, Greg Fahy and
@KarlPfleger
!
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Foresight CEO, Allison Duettmann, will be speaking at the second Longevity Summit Dublin!
Check out this year's incredible lineup:
@LongevityDublin
@aubreydegrey
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thank you to all participants of the longevity tech tree, tools, and prided workshop for such a wonderful weekend full new proposals for making progress on undervalued areas in the field! Recordings of the final presentations to be published soon!
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Yesterday evening we kicked off the LBF x Foresight Longevity Workshop with a VIP reception in San Jose. Thanks to our hosts
@LBF_org
@StanfordMed
and media partner
@LifespanIO
. This event is made possible by sponsors
@protocollabs
100 Capital
@NFX
,
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Thank you AthenaDAO
@athena_DAO_
! Tune in next week to listen to our very own
@allisondman
with
@LauraMinquini
&
@isss111
Date: Wednesday, October 26th @ 12 pm PDT
Platform: Twitter Spaces -
Format: 45 minute with you and then 15 open for Q&A
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In his recent virtual seminar in our Biotech Group, the amazing Joao Pedro Megalhaes
@jpsenescence
talks overcoming death, new longevity drugs, and the prospects of curing ageing.
Check out the Scientific Quest for Immortality here:
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone at Vision Weekend France!
Your collaboration, innovations, and future-focus made it a truly memorable event. A special thanks to our sponsors, speakers, fellows, volunteers, & Chateau du Feÿ for the invaluable support. Photos to follow!
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Curious what role the extracellular matrix plays in human aging?
Collin
@CollinEwald
joined our Biotech & Health extension group to discuss the work he's doing at the Laboratory of Extracellular Matrix Regeneration
@ETH
Watch here:
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Gosh we had the best time with you at our Longevity Frontiers Workshop. Can't wait to see the progress that has been made when we meet again next year ✨
@RaianyRomanni
@RetroBio_
@bettslacroix
@tomorrowbio
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2021 Foresight Fellow in Molecular Machines and Robust Dynamics
Liang Feng is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Fraser Stoddart’s group at Northwestern University. Currently, his work has received a total citation of 2,062 with an h-index of 19 (accessed on Dec. 7, 2020).
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New Hope Drop!
David Deutsch | On Beauty, Knowledge, and Progress -
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How can we better invest in Biotech? Listen to this episode with
@C_Angermayer
that aims to discuss the current landscape of Biotech investing, and branches out into a greater conversation about hopeful future technologies!
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How can we use Web3 technology to reimagine science? Together with
@opscientia
,
@SCRForum
,
@DesciFoundation
,
@DeSciLabs
,
@vita_dao
,
@lab_dao
,
@Molecule_dao
,
@talentDAO_
and others, Foresight is hosting
#DeSciDay
at
#EthAmsterdam
on 4/20. Join us!
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Many of you will be uplifted to watch this! See Brewster Kahle (founded of the Internet Archive) discuss coming together for beneficial AI progress by combining many different research collections. 🤝📚
@brewster_kahle
@internetarchive
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6
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A major thank you to our Vision Weekend USA Existential Hope panelists for their insights into ways of thinking about the long-term future: Tom Kalil, Christine Peterson, Jason Crawford, Tamara Winter, and Samo Burja.
@lifeext
@jasoncrawford
@_TamaraWinter
@SamoBurja
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Happening now!
@TheDAOist_
Global Governance Gathering (GGG). Foresight CEO
@allisondman
speaks on
#DeSci
Governance w/
@bbeats1
of
@SCRForum
Erik Van Winkle of
@opscientia
@theobtl
of
@vita_dao
@lab_dao
and
@hebbianloop
of
@opscientia
Livestream:
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1. Foresight is
#hiring
Program Lead positions for our different technology programs in
#Neurotech
,
#MolecularMachines
,
#Biotech
/
#HealthExtension
,
#IntelligentCooperation
, and
#Space
:
These roles will be working on our ambitious tech tree project!
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If you missed Mahdi Moqri speaking about The Biomarkers of Aging Consortium at Foresight's Longevity Frontiers Workshop 2023 earlier this year, no stress, you can tune in here 🧬
@mahdi_moqri
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❗ Open position at Foresight❗: Technology Tree Researcher for Intelligent Cooperation. We're searching for a researcher to build a tech tree to map Intelligent Cooperation.
Timeline: 3-month research sprint + monthly updates
Location: remote!
Apply:
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Thank you for attending the Neurotech workshop we co-hosted with
@protocollabs
! We heard presentations from
@allisondman
,
@juanbenet
,
@maxhodak_
,
@michaelandregg
,
@DeneckeChase
, and
@janhkirchner
Apply to our remaining workshops here:
#LabWeekPG
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We are happy to announce that the 2021 Feynman Prizes are now open for nominations. Nominate your own work or the work of a colleague who is a good fit and deserves to be awarded any of the Prizes.
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New podcast episode!
@kate_sills
,
@agoric
| NFTs and Engineering Property Rights
“Why is property law so different from contract law? Normally, when two parties buy or sell something, it doesn't have a huge negative effect on everyone else.“
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Thank you to the talented artists who performed at Vision Weekend Europe. Ilya Friedberg played Douglas Hofstadter (G.E.B.).
@keroserene
performed her rendition of Rhapsody in Blue at our CyberFutures Ball. Our D.J.'s Utility Beats, MKMINUSULTRA, and Discotopian kept us dancing
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What can we learn from biological and social systems about designing safe & beneficial AI systems? The PIBBSS Fellowship is a 3-month funded program where you work on a project intersecting your own field & AI safety. Info & apply: . Deadline Feb 4!
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Check out this video of Foresight's president
@allisondman
interviewed by
@BrentNally
on the work of our Biotech group and reaching escape velocity in longevity! 😍
I had a blast with
@allisondman
discussing how she’s leading
@foresightinst
to help us
@SolvingAging
ASAP
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Given the current economic situation, much of our 2023 Program is uncertain. If you can help us advance science, technology, and flourishing futures this Giving Tuesday, we would truly appreciate it
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Congratulations to our Xhope hackathon winners: Amanda Ngo & Jelena Luketina (2024 Fellows); Chiara Gerosa, Impact Academy; and Mingzhu He. As the Conscious Tech Collective they explore the impact of a wave of emerging technologies on well-being.
@manda_ngo
@jelennal_
@MingzhuHe1
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2021 Foresight Fellow in Smart Contracts
Kate Sills is a software engineer at Agoric, building composable smart contract components in a secure subset of JavaScript.
Kate earned her degree in CS from UC Berkeley, and in her spare time she is building a tiny house!
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LONGEVITY //
@protocollabs
and Foresight Institute are excited to invite you to Paths to Progress in Longevity Technology on April 10 in San Francisco. Explore new R&D/DeSci technologies for advancing progress in human longevity:
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Our 2023 Whole Brain Emulation workshop report: . This workshop explored WBE's potential in AI Safety. Experts from neurotechnology, AI, & AI Safety discussed development, acceleration possibilities, & ethical considerations.
@allisondman
,
@anderssandberg
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Judges include
@emiyazono
, Protocol Labs,
@trentmc0
, Ocean Protocol,
@balajis
, 1729,
@A225
, X Prize,
@ec_anderson
, Planetary Holdings,
@matthiasroder
,
@SedaRoeder
,
@andysmilek
,
@zmolek
, Sonophilia Foundation, and
@allisondman
, Foresight Institute.
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Given that short AGI timelines may be possible, we're regranting $1M per year for supporting under-explored approaches to this area, in the areas of Cryptography/Security, Neurotech (WBE/Lofi), and Multipolar Approaches.
Information and to apply:
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A great talk by Mike McCulloch of Plymouth University about 'How Quantised Inertia Can Revolutionise Space Travel' 🪐
@memcculloch
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We know many of you are waiting for this announcement.... So here goes! Congratulations to our 2023 Foresight Molecular Machines Fellows. Super proud of you all
@IreneBenzop
@HaichaoWu_HW
@mibutama
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Announcing the winners of the Longevity Prize!
Congratulations to 🥇 Carlos Galicia
@cgalicia_
, 🥈Rakhan Aimbetov
@r_aimbetov
, 🥉Shahaf Peleg
@DocLarus
, and Peter Hollands, Christian Schafmeister, Mikhail Batin
@MikhailBatin
, and James Wordsworth!!
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We are thrilled to announce the Molecular Systems Engineering Platform Launch with Foresight co-Founder Eric Drexler.
Registration details here:
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Excited to announce our first set of speakers for the Gaming the Future Book Club! On May 1: Foresight Co-Founders
@lifeext
and
@marksammiller
of
@agoric
, with Foresight CEO
@allisondman
. To join the discussion, become a paid subscriber to our Substack.
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Join us in Berlin on December 15 for the last Existential Hope salon of 2023, with guest speakers Trent McConaghy,
@trentmc0
,
@oceanprotocol
, and Adina Popescu,
@aaadina
, ÆRTH; hosted by Lou de Kerhuelvez,
@louviq
,
@foresightinst
.
For info & registration
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@kate_sills
is a Foresight fellow and software engineer working for
@Agoric
. In this session she speaks on a subject at the intersection of law and economics in blockchain: NFT's and engineering property rights.
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Currently in Berlin! Speaking longevity and cryonics.
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2015 Feynman Prize winner Michelle Simmons named 2018 Australian of the Year for quantum computing
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Grateful to
@oceanprotocol
for joining us as a sponsor for Vision Weekend France. We're honored to have Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0
as a distinguished speaker. Ocean Protocol leads in ensuring safe
#AI
#data
sharing while preserving privacy, aiming to democratize AI opportunities.
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We had the BEST time at our most recent neurotech workshop, 'Whole Brain Emulation'. Thank you to all the brilliant minds who attended!
@anderssandberg
michaelandregg
@randalkoene
@LisaThiergart
@E11BIO
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Congratulations to our 2024 Longevity Biotech Fellows! Sara LaHue,
@saralahue
, Michael Florea, Sruthi Sivakumar,
@SruthiSivakuma6
, Mahdi Moqri,
@mahdi_moqri
, Herbert Fountain, Elena Sergeeva, and Roman Bauer,
@romanbauer111
.
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Watch
@ProfDaveLeigh
,
@DeanAstumian
, Alberto Credi discuss The Advent of Artificial Molecular Machines.
First (and phenomenal) keynote session of our Molecular Machines group!
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Looking forward to sharing recordings of our Intelligent Cooperation Workshop with you all soon ~ a lot of fun and progress was had 💜
@lrhammond
@allisondman
@avichal
@emiyazono
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Our Vision Weekend USA VIPs & Speakers not only experienced an incredible cello performance, but had the opportunity to hear
@allisondman
@lifeext
@marksammiller
talk about their book 'Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation'
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Foresight Fellow Phoebe Tickell
@solarpunk_girl
launches "Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance" a 6-week course to help onboard civil society onto open-source, decentralized platforms and practices - scholarships available.
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Thank you to our speakers David Furman, Mike Grace,
@pablo_moncada_
,
@anaprosina
, Aaron Krane, and
@AsherSoryl
for their thoughtful presentations at our Space mini-workshop. Special thanks to
@protocollabs
for co-hosting, and all of you who attended!
#LabWeekPG
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New video!
David Krakauer,
@sfiscience
| Collective Computing: Learning from Nature
David’s research focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology & culture, including genetic, neural, linguistic & cultural mechanisms.
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2021 Foresight Fellow in Ecosystem Capacity Building
She has been called “the voice of the emerging future” and “one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation”.
@solarpunk_girl
is a complex systems thinker developing new systems and governance for a better world.
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Thank you so much
@richardcraib
for joining!
A complete seminar summary including video, slides and notes can be found here:
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“If we get to a post-scarcity society, with much greater levels of well being and really long lives, settling space, etc., that means we have a lot to look forward to when it comes to the future!” New podcast up with
@anderssandberg
!
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Lovely pictures from our Vision Weekend gathering at Chateau du Fey 🧡
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We welcomed experts at the LBF x Foresight Longevity Workshop, including
@bryan_johnson
@edwardlando
@Replacing_Aging
&
@KarlPfleger
.
We look forward to the longevity discussion at Vision Weekend USA. Tickets here:
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Thank you all who joined Vision Weekend EU!
We explored Paths to Progress in longevity, nanotech, neurotech, and AI, & enjoyed art, piano, a Cyber Futures Ball, poetry readings, & much more!
HUGE thanks to our partners
@crdntwrk
,
@SPRIND
, AniBiome,
@ProtocolLabs
, &
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Last week, our Chief of Innovation and Strategy Officer, Niamh Peren, attended the
@SynBioBeta
VIP dinner in San Jose. A valuable opportunity to discuss industry trends and connect with fellow leaders in synthetic biology.
@johncumbers
@juanbenet
@protocollabs
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Join Sander Wezenberg
@s_wezenberg
and Foresight's Molecular Machines Group on March 16th for a presentation on artificial molecular machines operating in the lipid bilayer! Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you don't miss the recording:
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