Any nanotech conference illustrated with some kind of nanobot dissecting blood cells always piques our inertest, in the same way that an engineering conference promoted by sending out a sepia image by men in hats standing around a steam engine would. But while much of the world has moved on, there are still part so the planet where nanobots still rule.
Stand up the Society of Manufacturing Engineers of Minneapolis, who inform us that molecular nanotechnology promises to usher in the next Industrial Revolution and replace our entire manufacturing base with a new, radically precise, less expensive, and more flexible way of making products. Sounds similar to the last Foresight gathering to us.
Perhaps they believe that Eric Drexler first coined the term ‘nanotechnology.‘