In this session of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, Self-Aware Systems founder Stephen Omohundro leads a discussion in which we will try to design the year 2030 assuming that we have both self-improving artificial intelligence and productive nanotechnology. We'll consider some of the likely characteristics of these technologies such as ...

Visualizing productive nanosystems and molecular manufacturing is a major challenge in communicating the power of this technology. To help address this problem, Nanorex and the Foresight Institute established a challenge grant to fund the production of a new computer-generated animated short film called ''Productive Nanosystems: from ...