From: Howard Rothenburg (hrothenb@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us)
Date: Mon Jan 19 1998 - 19:31:07 MST
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Howard Rothenburg wrote:
>
>
> > If the research is to happen according to the ideas stated in this
> > list, then the people who believe in that research will need to pool
>
> Aw, come on. No community of this size can finance any R&D effort, however
> pathetic. Have a look at the cryonics crowd.
Maybe you are right, and we are too small to affect the outcome. But
since a variety of high tech. startups exist now and we can invest in
them, I think that, with their incremental increase in funding, extropians
could support the research areas that they favor.
>
> > As a more conventional approach, we should be able to find biotech startup
> > companies to invest in now. Several have made the news over the past year.
>
> Why biotech? Why not software, hardware, robotics, nanotechnology, space,
> communication startups?
I favor research into all of those. I commented on biotech because the
original post was about biological research.
(Thanks for the feedback Gene.)
---Howard
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