From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 12:41:08 MDT
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:28 pm, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Robert Bradbury asks:
> <<How long do you think someone like Sadaam would remain in power
> if the U.S. were dropping 3000 sq. ft. nanotech enabled luxury
> homes (capable of replicating themselves based on instructions
> beamed down from satellites, i.e. a "broadcast" architectures)
> into the middle of the Iraqi desert and Sadaam resorted to
> using his artillery to blowing them up so the people would
> stop migrating out of Bagdahd so he could retain his power
> structure? Why would you want to serve in Sadaam's honor
> guard when you could lie by your pool all day?
> The entire way people think about politics shifts when we
> eliminate our current conditions of scarcity.
> Robert>>
>
> I think you are the right track, but I believe it may take 10-20 years
> to
> convince the Arab Muslim and Iranian peoples to becomes cynical, crass,
> materialists like ourselves.
I think it is fantasy to consider self-replicating nanotech versus
Saddam. Saddam will die of old age long before nanotech
self-replicating luxury homes are shipping. Some people have trouble
seperating current reality with future fantasy. Sure, self-replicating
nanotech might work some day, but it certainly isn't the solution to our
problems in this decade. Even if there is a sudden breakthrough in
nanotech, we will get better weapons, super-shields, biotech,
micro-robots and other warfare devices long before we start mass
producing self-replicating houses. This is even too silly for science
fiction.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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