Christine Peterson is an American forecaster, and the co-founder of

Foresight Institute The Foresight Institute (Foresight) is a San Francisco-based research non-profit that promotes the development of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, such as safe AGI, biotech and longevity. Foresight runs four cross-disciplinary pr ...

. She is credited with suggesting the term "

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

" when used in connection with software. Peterson holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT.Officers and Staff: Christine Peterson – Co-Founder & Past President
Foresight Institute. Accessed 4 February 2018.

Works

Open Source Software

As reported o
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she coined the term on February 3, 1998:

Books

In 1991 she coauthored ''Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution'' with Gayle Pergamit and

Eric Drexler Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for studies of the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and ...

., which sketches nanotechnology's potential environmental and medical benefits as well as possible abuses. In 1997 she coauthored ''Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work'' with Gayle Pergamit.

Articles

*"Thinking Longer Term about Technology", 2009.

References

External links

Foresight Institute
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