From: Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 29 1999 - 12:41:07 MST
Nanosystems is the "technical" text book of nanotechnology.(my
favorite book)
The problem with nanotech and academic angle, is there is no nano
major at this time. So Drexler had a struggle in this area, and indeed
had to create one. This was a problem in our well defined fields of
study. Because nanotech covers such a wide span of discipline's, this
will be an issue we will have to further deal with.
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
http://www.nanoindustries.com
>From: hal@rain.org
>>Drexler's problem is that he did it backwards. He wrote the popular
book
>first, and then when he got ignored/flamed by academia, he went back
>and got his PhD and then wrote the technical book.
>
>And the technical book is itself an affront to the academic tradition,
>aggressively interdisciplinary to the point that no specialist is able
to
>understand it. It was like a slap in the face to his academic critics.
>
>He will continue to be a pariah unless he decides to play the game of
>academic politics.
>
>Hal
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