IMAGINE A WORLD where science and technology have evolved to the point that human travel to nearby star systems is as much part of everyday life as long business trips are to today's typical business travelers. How would this society be different than the one we know?

If this question seems too daring and its answer unlikely to have repercussions in our lifetime, just consider the reaction our grandparents would have had if they had been instantaneously transported forward in time, from their mainly rural society into our high-tech world. When my grandparents were born, the telephone was a curiosity, there were no airplanes nor television, and cars were a luxury.

Nowadays, our children take it for granted that a strange car called Sojourner landed on Mars to "sniff'' its rocks, they use something called the Internet for their research, and cell phones ring all around them. If I want to travel anywhere on the planet, I can probably get there in less than a day, along with thousands of other people.

Now consider the time factor. Until the end of the 19th century, scientists could not even agree on the existence of atoms. By 1932, not only the neutron, the proton, and the electron had been discovered, but anti-matter was also known. By the end of the 20th century, every major hospital was using atomic physics for diagnosis and treatment. The world will change during our lifetimes much more than during those of our ancestors, and much more rapidly.

So, I invite you again to imagine a world as different from ours as ours is from that of our great-grandparents. This world is not one hundred years away. It's here now and it will unfold before our very eyes in the next few years. We will see changes in science and technology that will make Star Trek scripts look short-sighted and obsolete. These grandiose changes are happening in our lifetimes.

InterStellar Technologies Corporation grew out of the realization that important scientific discoveries in recent years can translate into breakthrough technologies in the areas of energy production and advanced propulsion within very typical time horizons.

We derive the name of our company from our awareness that these developments will in the near future take us into interstellar space. However, our thrust is on patenting, prototyping, testing, and bringing to market products that will significantly affect the lives of every person on the planet. For this purpose, we strive to conduct and to publish high quality scientific research, we seek the advice of the most respected professionals in the field, and focus only on those technologies that hold the promise to achieve massive returns for our investors.

In the last few years, we have applied for a number of patents in the area of revolutionary means of energy production. This means measurable progress in the quest for fuel-free, by-product free energy, including much more efficient approaches to traditional technologies, such as solar energy, and power beaming. We are also currently working on revolutionary means of fuel-free propulsion. Needless to say, significant progress in both of these areas will have dramatic consequences in the aerospace industry, among others.

However, the technologies we are patenting will have an impact also in other areas, such as integrated, semiconductor microelectromechanical system engineering, atomic physics, and "intelligent'' devices. We are especially interested in applications that will enable revolutionary nanosurgical techniques, such as in targeted, minimally invasive manipulation, removal, and destruction of individual cells in biological tissues.

Please, let us show you how we are pushing the frontiers of energy, advanced propulsion, and nanosurgery technology, among others, by exploiting the quantum vacuum. I hope that our presentation will stimulate and fascinate you as we explore the greatest adventure of our civilization.

--Dr. Fabrizio Pinto