We need it urgently to get through these next 50 years. It will be a challenge. But, I am confident we will succeed. For more information on Smalley's Web site , see WebWatch on page 11. As Foresight Institute celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of both the organization and the initial publication of Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation , more has been achieved than most participants dared to hope a decade ago.
Protein engineering is now commonplace.
High school students are assembling devices in their basements that can manipulate individual atoms. Another key goal of Foresight is nearing realization with significant progress in the Web Enhancement Project , Drexler said. Several proposals have been made over the years, including the Xanadu Project and the Hyper-G Project initiated in 1989 by Hermann Maurer at Graz University of Technology, Austria. The latter concept has now reached commercialization with the advent of Hyperwave, a new server software product that offers flexible advanced hypertext capabilities while maintaining full compatibility with existing Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Foresight is establishing a Hyperwave site to test and demonstrate the software's ability to facilitate scientific debate.