Nanotechnology – The Next Revolution

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Movies

• Agent Cody Banks

• Innerspace

• Prey
  

Suggested Speakers

• Phaedon Avouris, PhD
  Manager, Nanometer Scale Science & Technology
  IBM Research Division

• K. Eric Drexler,
  Chairman and President
  Foresight Institute, Palo Alto, CA

• Congressman Michael M. Honda (CA)
  Member of House Committee on Science
  Represents Silicon Valley, CA

• Ralph C. Merkle
  Professor, Georgia Tech College of Computing
  Director, GTISC (Georgia Tech Information Security Center)
  Vice President, Technology Assessment, Foresight Institute

• Chris Phoenix
  Director Research & Co-Founder
  Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

• Peter A. Singer
  Director
  University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

• Eric Werwa, PhD
  Legislative Assistant in Rep. Mike Honda's Washington office, where he is responsible for nanotechnology legislation and policy
  

Websites

• Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)
  http://www.crnano.org/

• EurekAlert - Nanotechnology in Context
  http://www.eurekalert.org/context.php?context=nano

• Foresight Institute
  http://www.foresight.org/

• IBM Research
  http://www.research.ibm.com/pics/nanotech/defined.shtml

• Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
  http://www.imm.org/

• Nanodot: News and Discussion of Coming Technologies
  http://nanodot.org/

• The Nanotechnology Bookstore
  http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/Bookstore.html

• NanoelectronicsPlanet.com - The Center for Nanoelectronics Business
  http://www.nanoelectronicsplanet.com

• NanoLink - Key Nanotechnology Sites on the Web
  http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/MEMEX/nanolink.html

• Nanotechnology Industries
  http://www.nanoindustries.com/

• nanotechweb.org – The world service for nanotechnology
  http://www.nanotechweb.org/

• Nanoword.net (A Brief History of Nanotechnology)
  http://www.nanoword.net

• Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Center
  http://www.nanotechproject.org/
  
• Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
  http://www.smalltimes.com
  
• Zyvex (first molecular nanotechnology company)
  http://www.zyvex.com

Books and Publications

• Engines of Creation, The Coming Era of Nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler

• Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance by BC Crandall
  Presents the basic principles of molecular nanotechnology to a nontechnical audience, and speculates about some early applications.

• Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World by Douglas Mulhall
  Proposes that molecular nanotechnology and machine intelligence will be needed to survive coming natural disasters.

• There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics by Richard P Feynman
  The transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave in 1959 where he first introduced the idea of molecular manufacturing.

  Fiction
  

• Prey by Michael Crichton
  Crichton's contribution to Nanotechnology and the "Grey Goo Problem".

• The First Immortal by James L. Halperin
  Explores nanotechnology's impact on the future of humanity, with special attention to cryonics and life extension
  

Articles

• Nanotech wrapped in federal support by Jon Van (Chicago Tribune, 27/11/2003)

• Nanoparticles clearly finger the culprit by Jenny Hogan (NewScientist.com, 11/03/2003)

• Not Science Fiction: An Elevator to Space by Kenneth Chang (The New York Times, 09/23/2003)

• Make Robots Not War, Some Scientists Refuse to Get Paid for Killer Ideas by Eric Baard (The Village Voice, September 10-16, 2003)

• 'Mind the gap': science and ethics in nanotechnology by Anisa Mnyusiwalla, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer (Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Electronic Journals, 02/17/2003)

• Nanotech may spark fierce ethical row (BBC News Online, 02/14/2003)

• Forward to the Future: Nanotechnology and Regulatory Policy by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Pacific Research Institute, 11/2002)

• Responsible Nanotechnology: Looking Beyond the Good News by Vicki Colvin (EurekAlert – Nanotechnology In Context, November 2002)

• EU Continues to Promote Nanotech Funding by Michael Pastore (NanoelectronicsPlanet.com,10/07/2002)

• Is nanotechnology hazardous to the environment? by The Associated Press (in: USA TODAY.com, 09/09/2002)

• Studying nanotech's social impact by Gene J. Koprowski, United Press International, (in: The Washington Post Online, 08/28/2003)

• Nanotechnology and Mass Destruction: The Need for an Inner Space Treaty by Sean Howard (Disarmament Diplomacy Issue No. 65, July - August 2002)