Our own David traveled to DC to accept the Foresight award for outstanding journalism in the field of nanotechnology. Way to go, Pesco!
David Pescovitz, writer-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley's College of Engineering and a columnist with Small Times, a magazine covering nanotech developments, won the Foresight Institute Communication Award for his writing.
"At the intersection (of computers and nanotech) lies our ability to engineer our world from the bottom up, and that pretty much blows my mind every time I think about it," Pescovitz said in accepting the award.
Nanotech's ability to shape the future to meet society's future needs goes beyond altering physical properties and creating new ones, Pescovitz told United Press International after the ceremony."In many ways, nanotechnology is attracting young people to the sciences in ways we haven't seen, really, since the space race," Pescovitz said. "The understanding of pure science is necessary for this field, and it is amazing that it can excite a new generation, whether they're scientists already, turn out to be scientists or just want to know more about how our world works."
