{"id":169,"date":"2007-08-07T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scitoys.com\/sciblog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:57:25","slug":"science-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scitoys.com\/sciblog\/archives\/169","title":{"rendered":"Science Foo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis weekend I got to meet with hundreds of amazing people at the O’Reilly\/Nature\/Google event called Science Foo (short for Friends Of O’Reilly). The discussions in the conference rooms were fascinating, but the discussions one-on-one or in small groups during breaks were even better.<\/p>\n

Some of the attendees I had met before, or even known well, such as Theo Gray<\/a>, Chris Dibona<\/a>, Sergey Brin<\/a>, Peter Murray-Rust<\/a>, Dean Kamen<\/a>, Josh Bloch<\/a>, Tim Hubbard<\/a>, Vinod Khosla<\/a>, and Larry Page<\/a>, but most others were people I had only read, or read about.<\/p>\n

The photo above shows Freeman Dyson<\/a>, Sir Martin Rees<\/a>, and Jaron Lanier<\/a>. More photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steve Benner<\/a> led or spoke at several marvelous discussions about synthetic biology and issues relating to recombinant DNA research and biohacking, along with Roger Brent<\/a> (who had some interesting applications for the ultraviolet LEDs I was handing out).<\/p>\n

Henry Gee<\/a> led a discussion on science fiction, attended by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/a>, Neal Stephenson<\/a>, and Greg Bear<\/a>, during which we found that many of the scientists in the audience were also writers of science fiction.<\/p>\n

If you see people in the photos wearing light sticks from scitoys.com, that’s because I brought a few hundred of them and passed them around. People got very creative with them.<\/p>\n

Charles Simonyi<\/a> talked about his recent tourist visit to the International Space Station, and Martha Stewart<\/a> stood up during his talk to tell us about making meals for him to take up into space.<\/p>\n

And I finally got to thank Martha Stewart in person for getting my company off to a big start — a large order of my Film Can Cannons<\/a> helped “start her company off with a bang” at the IPO party for MSLO, and was the first big order for scitoys.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eric Drexler, Lee Smolin and Freeman Dyson play with light sticks from scitoys.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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