From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1999 - 14:48:47 MDT
"Mark Phillips" <clay8@hotmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, Craig, you may be right. Hopefully, though, we extropians,
> venturists, and especially Drexler and his group and (BC)Crandall and his
> group, may be able to keep nanotech RESEARCH, and, thus, the BREAKTHROUGH,
> in the public/commercial sector of the society. If not, we may all be
> (nano-)screwed!!
What was the BREAKTHROUGH of computers? What was the BREAKTHROUGH of
chemical synthesis? What was the BREAKTHROUGH of modern medicine?
Technological development is a broad front, not a race for a single
breakthrough. The exception may be when trying to use a completely new
physical principle, but nanotech is well within the spheres of
chemistry, physics and biology.
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