From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 03:40:46 MST
Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> > Oh, great. A bloody chaos mage in nanotechnology. Sure. That's *all* we
> > need.
>
> You'd better believe it. Peter Carroll forsaw the coming of the
> "Sorcerer-Scientist"- well, where do I sign up for the job? Playing with
> particles, studying quantum mechanics and non-linear dynamics, and building
> microscopic devices of joy and terror is right up my alley. Maybe I can
> finally figure out how to *really* polymorph someone into a toad and animate
> the dead... but I'm getting a few decades ahead of myself. I have to start
> with the basics first. Transmuting lead into gold can wait. (and, in
> today's economy, who would want to do that anyway?)
>
Child's play. Miracles of Christ? No biggie. I'm looking forward to
practical levitation and near teleportation myself. And having as much
integrated memory and processing power interfaced fully with my brain as
I could want or need at any particular time. Playing, no, make that
being, a techno-mage would be good fun for a while. Wiping death except
for from accident or violence (if even then) out of human consideration
would be a HUGE high.
A few decades ahead of yourself? I doubt it. It would probably be a
good idea to start thinking in terms of what you would and would not do
with such power and how people would deal with this power and how, if
needed, you and others might want/need to change to deal with such
things well and reasonably benignly. A lot of this will come much
sooner than you think.
- samantha
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