"Surely you're jokine Mr.Moss"
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
>From: "Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: <extropians@extropy.com>
>Subject: Re: Nanotech has gone mainstream
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:17:45 -0000
>
>Spike Jones wrote:
>
>> > >... lose all credibility in the field and are
>> > > shunned by their fellow scientists? Or am I
>> > > reading too much into the aparently intentional
>> > > oversight? spike
>> > Michael Lorrey wrote:
>> > Feynman wrote a few himself, including several not-
>> > science books, which included advice on picking up
>> > girls who will sleep with you, his preference for
>> > strip clubs to do his studying, and a course on
>> > picking locks and cracking safes...
>>
>> You refer to: Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman.
>>
>> To this day, I consider it the most entertaining book
>> I have ever read. spike
>
>Back to the point at hand: The reason Drexler is shunned and Feynman is
not
>is because Feynman never produced wide-eyed science fiction scenarios
where
>the technology he proposed created a near-utopia society. I happen to
think
>that this is a damn good reason to shun a fellow scientist.
>
>BM
>
>
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