Nanotechnology roadmap published: statement by Eric Drexler

EXCLUSIVE TO KURZWEILAI.NET -- I'm pleased to report that the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems has finally been released. This marks the completion of the first broad, multidisciplinary effort to explore how current laboratory techniques for atomically precise fabrication can be extended, step by step, toward increasingly advanced products and capabilities.

The Roadmap project was led by the Battelle Memorial Institute, a not-for-profit corporation that manages a set of U.S. National Laboratories that includes Pacific Northwest, Oak Ridge, and Brookhaven. These labs hosted three of the Roadmap workshops and provided many of the participating scientists and engineers.

I expect that the Roadmap will have a strong, cumulative impact on research agendas and strategic directions in the US and internationally. Its greatest impact may be in forward-looking Asian countries with an appetite for change.