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J. Storrs Hall, Ph.D., is an independent scientist and author. He was the founding chief scientist of Nanorex, Inc. and the president of the Foresight Institute. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and an associate editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation. 

He was also accredited as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the field of computational climate models. Hall's previous books include Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine and Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology. Now residing on Chesapeake Bay, he dabbles in aerodynamics design under the auspices of Eastern Shore Flying Cars, LLC. He lives in Virginia.

John Storrs "Josh" Hall is involved in the field of molecular nanotechnology. He founded the sci. nanotech Usenet newsgroup and moderated it for ten years, and served as the founding chief scientist of Nanorex Inc. for two years. He has written several papers on nanotechnology and developed several ideas, such as the utility fog, the space pier, a weather control system called The Weather Machine, and a novel flying car.

He is the author of Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology, a fellow of the Molecular Engineering Research Institute, and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing.

Hall was also a computer systems architect at the Laboratory for Computer Science Research at Rutgers University from 1985 until 1997. In February 2009, Hall was appointed president of the Foresight Institute. In 2006, the Foresight Nanotech Institute awarded Hall the Feynman Communication Prize.

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