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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > Technology > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Internet Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Tech forum looks past economy to future Fri Feb 6, 2009 8:42pm EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By David Lawsky LONG BEACH, California (Reuters) - More cancers will be preventable in 5 to 10 years, using a vaccine. People wearing artificial feet may scale walls a la Spider-Man. Robots will come with lifelike faces that convey human emotion. That was just a sampling of the technology envisioned for the future at TED, the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design gathering of corporate, Hollywood and scientific glitterati touted as a caldron of ideas and innovation. But this year, optimism for the future might have been clouded somewhat by a grim present reality -- how to bankroll embryonic initiatives when capital markets are sputtering and enthusiasm wanes for financially risky investments. "It's not that people aren't focused on financial crisis, but this is a place for vision. They're thinking past the present," argues Martin Pazzani, an entrepreneur and chief executive-in-residence at Bluestone Partners of Beverly Hills, a private equity firm. "TED helps us identify the strategic opportunities further down the line, rather than solutions to problems tomorrow." Not all share his upbeat philosophy. Venture capital has slowed to a trickle since 2008, when the financial crisis began to ripple through Silicon Valley. Still, there was little overt discussion of the economic storm blowing just outside the conference's arts-center venue in Long Beach, California. Attendees preferred to discuss climate change, robotics, and the threat of new viruses. University of California biologist Robert Full and Stanford University colleagues studied geckos, creating an adhesive material that clings to any smooth, dry surface. Full showed video of a woman using out-sized, artificial "gecko feet" to climb a sheer wall. Full also analyzed how a gecko's tail acts as a stabilizer in free-fall and roboticists reproduced the effect in a gecko-robot. Roboticist David Hanson created a replica of renowned scientist Albert Einstein's head that could react to human expressions with expressions of its own. "Tech will lead us out of this," said James Phillips, head of Pinnacle Investments in Arkansas, who said he was still making investments. Health concerns permeated the conference, with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates himself making an impassioned plea about the crumbling state of global healthcare, at one point releasing a few mosquitoes into the audience to underscore the dangers of malaria. Nathan Wolfe, a virus hunter who heads the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, said within five to 10 years, more forms of cancer will be preventable through vaccines. "Within the next five to 10 years we will find that additional cancers are caused by viruses," he said. He said that will open to door to more vaccines to prevent cancers, although no one knows which ones yet. Wolfe is also focusing on monitoring the emergence of viruses around the world that hold the threat of new epidemics like AIDS, which was not contained, or SARS, which was. Continued... 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