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updates and elaboration to the first section
The first section does not provide the current status of official MNT research projects (eg. MNT roadmap project led Battelle & the Foresight Institute). The material cited is from 2007 and prior. It is almost 2009 and many social and economic factors may have come into play in the past two years. I'd like to see recent developments, as I won't be researching it as would the author. I read the encyclopedia so that I will get the general understanding of a subject without neccesarily delving in to deeper investigation of my own.

THE FOLLOWING IS TEXT FROM Molecular nanotechnology

Formulating a roadmap for the development of MNT is now an objective of a broadly based technology roadmap project led by Battelle (the manager of several U.S. National Laboratories) and the Foresight Institute.[3] The roadmap was originally scheduled for completion by late 2006, then by early 2007, and most recently is set to be unveiled in October 2007.[4] The Nanofactory Collaboration[5] is a more focused ongoing effort involving 23 researchers from 10 organizations and 4 countries that is developing a practical research agenda[6] specifically aimed at positionally-controlled diamond mechanosynthesis and diamondoid nanofactory development. In August 2005, a task force consisting of 50+ international experts from various fields was organized by the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology to study the societal implications of molecular nanotechnology.[7] Ray Kurzweil predicts that full MNT will exist in 2025.