Reserve a slot in your agenda to attend the "space elevator" convention in Japan, November, hosted by the Japanese Space Elevator Association. Thousands of scientists from all around the world will be there discussing the application of carbon nanotube to Arthur C. Clarke´s dream.
It seems that in around 25 years the first elevator can be ready, with a big tube anchored to the earth's surface reaching tens of thousands of miles into space, connected to a space station which acts as a counterweight and through inertia the whole thing stays straight.
To avoid hurricanes they propose among other options the Galapagos Islands as a potential site however, apart from the obvious turtle issue this seems slightly out of the way for your typical New Yorker/Londoner etc. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
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