Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems Released
December 13th, 2007 –
Last week, a working group of nano-technology experts released a comprehensive road-map report and associated proceedings laying out current state-of-the-art capabilities as well as near and long-term research and application goals.
According to steering committee member Eric Drexler, “It centers on today’s capabilities, exploring the rewards we can expect from incremental advances, and links these advances to longer term objectives for atomically precise manufacturing.”
The report is the culmination of two years of effort, underwritten by The Waitt Family Foundation and Sun Microsystems, and led by Battelle Memorial Institute. The road-map and associated working group findings are available from e-drexler.com.
What does everybody think of their timeline predictions for the next 30 years in that document? To optimistic, not optimistic enough?
timeline predictions for the next 30 years
It’s a very good question. It seems reasonable to assume we will have a conscious AI within 10-15 years. This in turn makes an explosion of innovative solutions very likely through collaborative efforts with humans. How to incoporate this likelihood into projections? dunno.
“It seems reasonable to assume we will have a conscious AI within 10-15 years.”
Why do you say that? Do you know something I don’t, or are you just making silly predictions for the hell of it?
Maybe it’s just because it’s holiday season, but there isn’t very much going on in this blog. I have a topic suggestion: why don’t you tell us a little about what’s going on at SIAI? What are your plans for the coming month/six months/year? Are you currently doing any research? Is there research going on somewhere else that’s relevant to SIAI? I’m genuinely curious!