The Foresight Institute announced today that Ray Kurzweil will keynote the 1st Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy, October 22-24, 2004 at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel, Washington DC area.

The conference is dedicated to in-depth exploration and discussion of research status, disruptive applications, and policy issues in nanotechnology.

Kurzweil’s keynote, “An Exponentially Expanding Future from Exponentially Shrinking Technology,” will describe how fast we are moving toward incorporating nanotechnology in our daily lives and give estimated dates of arrival for these fundamental changes.