Quote Gandalf from the Two Towers:
And I come back to you now – at the turn of the tide
I think the UK projects are interesting, aggressive and achievable. Significant success of the three proposed project and other which are likely to follow in the regular funding process would force a response by other countries to take programmable matter with site specific chemistry (molecular nanotechnology) seriously. I think even before such success (which might take until 2009-2011) is achieved, countries and researchers in other countries will react this year.
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