Engelbart has served on the Advisory Boards of the University of Santa Clara Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Foresight Institute, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The Technology Center of Silicon Valley, and The Hyperwords Company ( producer of the Firefox add-on Hyperwords.

The Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies.

The Foresight Institute has several running prizes, including the annual Feynman Prizes given in experimental and theory categories, and the $ 250, 000 Feynman Grand Prize for demonstrating two molecular machines capable of nanoscale positional accuracy and computation.

Foresight Institute was founded " to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition " but focused " its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion ".

In May 2005 the Foresight Institute changed its name to " Foresight Nanotech Institute " and narrowed its mission to " ensure beneficial implementation of nanotechnology.

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A roadmap for the development of MNT is an objective of a broadly based technology project led by Battelle ( the manager of several U. S. National Laboratories ) and the Foresight Institute.

In light of this perception of potential danger, the Foresight Institute ( founded by K. Eric Drexler to prepare for the arrival of future technologies ) has drafted a set of guidelines for the ethical development of nanotechnology.

* Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize

In 2006, Freitas was awarded Lifeboat Foundation's Guardian Award, and he received the 2007 Foresight Prize in Communication from the Foresight Institute.

The Foresight Institute has published guidelines for researchers in mechanical self-replication.

These terms were first applied to the field of nanotechnology by the Foresight Institute in 1989 in order to distinguish between molecular manufacturing ( to mass-produce large atomically precise objects ) and conventional manufacturing ( which can mass-produce large objects that are not atomically precise ).

These include Humanity +, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the Life Extension Foundation, Foresight Institute, Transhumanist Arts & Culture, The Extropist Examiner, the Immortality Institute, Betterhumans, Aleph in Sweden, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

The Foresight Institute also recommended embedding controls in the molecular machines.