X-Message-Number: 30390
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:51 -0800
From: Edgar Swank <>
Subject: Nanotech roadmap

I hope I'm not encroaching on "nanogirl's" territory by posting this..

January 29, 2008: From Here to There: Nanotechnology Roadmap
http://www.foresight.org/cms/press_center/282

Menlo Park, CA  January 29, 2008   The potential for nanotechnology to 
"build molecule-by-molecule" has been greatly discussed with one 
question invariably being asked: How do we get from here to there?

Foresight Nanotech Institute, a leading nanotechnology think tank and 
public interest organization, and Battelle, a leading global research 
and development organization, have officially unveiled "Productive 
Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap." Productive nanosystems are 
molecular-scale systems that make other useful materials and devices 
that are nanostructured.

This Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems is a first attempt to 
map out the R&D pathways across multiple disciplines to achieve 
atomically precise manufacturing. For the past three years, working 
groups comprised of over 70 research scientists, nanotechnology 
theorists, and business leaders have collaborated to create a common 
framework for understanding and defining these pathways.

[remainder of article online]

Daily developments in nanotech, medicine, artificial intelligence are in 
an Email newletter available at
http://www.kurzweilai.net

I commend this to the skeptics who wonder what happened to all these 
promising areas of research. They are very much alive, if a bit behind 
schedule.

If I may be permitted a bit of political discourse, I think research 
would be much further along if government, especially OUR government, 
were not sucking up so much money, especially to kill people and blow 
things up. I think we can defend this country adequately without 
spending more on our military than all the other countries combined!

-- 
Edgar W. Swank   <>
http://www.edgarswank.us.tt
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