From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 20:12:17 MDT
At 01:05 PM 5/6/02 -0700, Gina cited Dan Gillmor:
>*One of my roles at the Foresight Institute annual "senior
>associates" meeting is to take up the far-left point on the
>intelligence bell curve of people in the room. This is another way of
>saying that the gathering typically includes some of the smartest
>people I ever encounter. Foresight, as its name suggests, looks into
>the future. Its main thrust is promoting nanotechnology, the science
>of making and manipulating very small things - down to the molecular
>and atomic level in its purest definition. (Small Times 5/6/02)
>http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=3693
which ends:
< Drexler... quoted Gandhi: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." >
Or, more depressingly in Drexler's case:
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then
you win. Then they ignore you.
Damien Broderick
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