Foresight Institute president Christine Peterson is offering KurzweilAI.net newsletter readers a generous discount of $200 on the $495 registration fee for the Foresight Vision Weekend, May 14-16 in Palo Alto, “Putting Feynman’s Vision into Action.”

“In financial terms, this comes close to waiving the membership requirement — we want Kurzweil folks at this conference!” she said.

This year, the legendary annual nanotech conference will include:

Introduction to molecular modeling software.

Georgia Tech Prof. Ralph Merkle’s “Top Ten” picks for recent nanotech advances on the path to real molecular manufacturing.

Foresight Institute chairman K. Eric Drexler on who to root for in molecular manufacturing and how to target spending.

Wrye Sententia, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, explains and defends the ethics of technological cognitive enhancement, leading to …

Debate of the Decade–Human Performance Enhancement: Inevitable Progress or Immoral Selfishness? Ramez Naam, author of the forthcoming More Than Human: How Technology Will Transform Us and Why We Should Embrace It vs. TBA.

Mike Treder and Chris Phoenix of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology explain why molecular manufacturing is coming sooner than expected and how to get ready.

An optional Fundamentals of Nanotechnology Tutorial will be presented prior to the event by Merkle and Peterson, along with Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and David I. Lackner, Program Manager, Nanotechnology Ventures, NASA Ames Research Center.

The registration discount is valid until May 14. Register at the (long-expired) “Super Early” rate and put “KurzweilAI.net” in the comments field.