Foresight Institute Newsletter Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Foresight Institute. (Palo Alto, California)
label: Creator
content: Lubar, Steven D.
topic: label: Topic
content: Nanotechnology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Steven F. Lubar, former curator in the National Museum of American History's Division of the History of Technology (now Division of Work and Industry) in 2004.
creator: label: Creator
content: Foresight Institute. (Palo Alto, California)
label: Creator
content: Lubar, Steven D.
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content: Foresight Institute Newsletter Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection contains an almost complete set of the quarterly newsletter Foresight Background and its successor Foresight Update from 1987 to January, 2004. Also included are five issues of Foresight Briefing. The Foresight Institute of Palo Alto, California, studies transformative technologies.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Started by Dr. Eric Drexler in 1986 in Palo Alto, California, the non-profit Foresight Institute's mission is to anticipate and meet the future challenges of advances in technology.  The Institute seeks to increase knowledge about advances, and to encourage and enable free and open discussion and study of them.  Its primary focus is on "molecular nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision."  It was the first organization to educate society about the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. The Institute hosts regular conferences on nanotechnology subjects, and it publishes articles, books, and a quarterly newsletter entitled Foresight Update (formerly Foresight Background). The Institute awards annual prizes in two categories, entitled the Foresight Institute Feynman Award, in honor of physicist Richard Feynman. One award is given for experimental research and the other for theory in advances in nanotechnology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986-2004
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Steven F. Lubar, former curator at the National Museum of American History, was a member and subscriber to the newsletter.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0863
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Newsletters
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1, Newsletters, 1989-2004

Series 2, Miscellaneous materials, 1986-2002 and undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, October, 2010.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Electronic copies of Foresight Update, June 1987-Spring 2007 and Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest, June 2005-Present are online at: http://www.foresight.org/
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains an almost complete set of the quarterly newsletter Foresight Background and its successor Foresight Update from 1987 to January, 2004. Foresight Update  is now a weekly newsletter. Also included are five issues of Foresight Briefing, a newsletter containing single, in-depth articles.  The newsletters contain essays, reviews of nanotechnology research, student prizes, question-and-answer sets, reference information, in-depth full length articles, and advertisements for nano-related scientific companies and legal services.  Miscellaneous mailings from the Foresight Institute to members, such as contribution requests, announcements of upcoming events, and publication offers are included.