Green Mission Statement

The Construction Team's objective is to translate atomically precise diagrams of a nanocomputer into a corresponding atomically precise physical object. The rapidly changing state of the art in the field of nanoscale construction makes it unclear what methods of construction will prove most advanced even a year from now. In this unprecedented technological rush long, fixed plans of action are almost certainly doomed to technological obsolescence. Therefore, the Construction Team must maintain flexibility and open-mindedness in its planning for the future. All potentially viable alternatives must be kept open as long as possible in case a side road of technology widens to become a major highway. With this in mind, the Green Team must maintain a large body of knowledge on differing construction methods, nanocomputational systems, and their compatibility. Thereby they can serve as an invaluable resource to those teams involved in the design of the nanocomputer by providing information on the practicality of various designs given the use of different construction systems. The Construction Team must be certain to maintain close contact with all other teams involved in the design and modeling of the nanocomputer to ensure that the final design is functional and practical. The members of the Construction Team cannot wait idle for a blueprint to reach them, as they will be the ones with the greatest familiarity with the nuts and bolts of quantum chemistry and engineering systems. They must stay actively involved in the design process to ensure that the Design Team produces a design that can be built within the time and resource limits of the project, and that the Molecular Modeling Team's software accurately reflects the realities of nanoscale environments. It is imperative that as many problems as possible are prevented by foresight before the arduous task of constructing a nanoscale device begins. The Construction Team can shape a plan with a maximum probability of success by finding those systems of computation which are compatible with the widest range of nanoscale construction techniques, allowing for a greater number of viable alternatives as nanotechnology evolves. If one design and one method of construction is decided upon in a haphazard fashion, there is a danger that the Nanocomputer Dream Team will only be able to deliver an obsolete prototype at too late of a date. Only by thinking through all possibilities ahead of time can the correct decisions be made to make the NCDT a true catalyst in the nanotechnology revolution.