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Is mechanically guided chemistry a viable basis for a manufacturing technology?
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To what extent is molecular manufacturing counterintuitive and underappreciated in a way that causes underestimation of its importance?
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What is the performance and potential of diamondoid machine-phase chemical manufacturing and products?
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What is the performance and potential of biological programmable manufacturing and products?
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What is the performance and potential of nucleic acid manufacturing and products?
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What other chemistries and options should be studied?
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What applicable sensing, manipulation, and fabrication tools exist?
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What will be required to develop diamondoid machine-phase chemical manufacturing and products?
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What will be required to develop biological programmable manufacturing and products?
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What will be required to develop nucleic acid manufacturing and products?
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How rapidly will the cost of development decrease?
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How could an effective development program be structured?
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What is the probable capability of the manufacturing system?
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How capable will the products be?
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What will the products cost?
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How rapidly could products be designed?
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Which of today's products will the system make more accessible or cheaper?
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What new products will the system make accessible?
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What impact will the system have on production and distribution?
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What effect will molecular manufacturing have on military and government capability and planning, considering the implications of arms races and unbalanced development?
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What effect will this have on macro- and microeconomics?
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How can proliferation and use of nanofactories and their products be limited?
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