From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 1999 - 19:54:37 MDT
All,
I think many are forgetting exponential growth tracks and
leveraging your investments.
$1 Put it in a bank in Switzerland
$10 Put it in a bank in Japan
$1 Hundred Put it in a bank in the U.S.
$1 Thousand Buy all the nanotech books & put them in
libraries in Russia
$1 Million Give the money to Zyvex.
$1 Billion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Trillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Quadrillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Pentillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Sextillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Septillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Octillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Nonillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
$1 Decillion Start a company for nanoassembler research.
The first amounts aren't big enough to do much with so you should
balance the safety of the funds with growing it into something
more robust. The library play leverages the skills of people
who don't have access to the information that we do. The Zyvex
play leverages a company already on the track (since there isn't
enough to leverage it yourself). At the point you can really do
something ($10 million+), then you should focus entirely on getting
a nanoassembler. Greater amounts allows you to spread a wider net
and get there sooner.
Spending the funds on *anything* else is a complete waste of time
because your are simply burning it if you do anything that is
based on non-nanoscale technologies. After the assembler/singularity
everything gets so compressed the costs drop by 2-3 orders of magnitude
(at least), so you can't easily judge how to spend "current" dollars.
Robert
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