If you want to keep up with nanotechnology, the Foresight Nanotech Institute's new Weekly News Digest is essential reading. The latest issue details the Institute's Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems Nanotechnology, a major intiative to, well, catch up to the nanohype. The Roadmap steering committee draws on the brightest minds in the nanotech research world, including the likes of UC Berkeley professor Paul Alivisatos, future-minded venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, Harvard University nano-pioneer Charles Lieber, and dozens of other supersmart people. Gateway founder Ted Waitt ponied up the initial $250,000 grant to get things rolling with collaboration from global R & D firm Battelle. From the current issue of the Weekly News Digest:
The Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems is significant because one of the unanswered questions in nanotechnology circles has been, "How do we get from where we are today to the more robust forms of nanotechnology, those that hold the potential for truly disruptive change?" Nanotechnology trackers often look at current applications versus the envisioned capabilities of the future and ask how one will lead to the other. This project is designed to chart the course and provide some proposed answers.
