Productive Nanosystems Roadmap gets underway
While most Foresight Conference participants headed for home, the Steering Committee and Working Group of the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystem buckled down for some hard work to kick off the Roadmap process. We are extremely pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has joined as a corporate sponsor of the Roadmap. It was especially helpful to have the 2005 Feynman Prize (Experimental) winner Christian Schafmeister at the meeting. As the meeting closed today, participants agreed that we’ve gotten off to a great start. My closing comment: “If we can maintain even half this momentum, we’ll have a Roadmap to be proud of.”—Christine
October 29th, 2005 at 9:28 AM
So does this community get to see working drafts of the roadmap and comment on them? Or is the final product going to be presented to the world as a fait accompli?
October 31st, 2005 at 7:39 PM
My understanding is that this is an iterative process, with the stages something like: Working Group, Steering Committee, corporate sponsors (in Dec 2006?), public review. There is a stage (multiple months) when the corporate sponsors see it in advance of public review, to compensate them for their financial support. Then, hopefully, people both find it useful and see ways to improve it, and we repeat the process and update the Roadmap, continuing until we reach the longer-term goals.
One can also imagine a more open-source-style Roadmap process. Would be interesting to see which worked better. Thanks for writing! —Christine