Convergence08
<p>Nov 16, 2008 10:25 PM
 
NOTES
 
Copy Christine Peterson notes to Foresight node.  Chris was the moderator for all of todays sessions,
she was quite good. 
 
Foresight Nanotech Inst is at  1455 Adams Dr  #2160
Menlo Park
voice  650  289-0860.
 
Ben Goertzel session on GLOBAL BRAIN
Ben did this very well.
 
Gave brief hx of the idea...
Teilhard de Chardin
 
 
Biology  Synthetic Session...
Andrew Hessel  very smart guy  and Chris Anderson  (post do at Cal)
 
Hessel:  open source bio... lower the barrier to entry
Andrew Hessel...  Alberta REs Council... great guy... really smart bio
www.arc.ab.ca
ahessel@gmail.com
 
 
 
biofuels:  corn to ethanol
sugar cane to ethan
then cellulosic to ethanol
 
4th gen will be to get ethan direct from algae.
 
Greg Benford.... CV fitness trilas...  discover longevity genes in fruit flies...
one fly lives 4X as long as others.  700 genes correl with longevity.
 
 
 </p>