From: Steve VanSickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 12 1999 - 12:59:12 MDT
I liked Doug Jones' answer over in sci.space.tech. He is a "rocket
plumber" for Rotary Rocket, so he lives as he speaks:
Some of us prefer not to wait for Santa Claus... besides, the nanotech
breakthrough is likely to be a singularity in human events, so I want
ot cram as much "normal" living into the time before that as possible.
Mind you, I read Engines of Creation when it first came out, had
dinner with Drexler (that guy is just too damn bright), and came away
convinced. But waiting for nanotech is like flipping to the back to
get the answers to the crossword, it takes all the fun & effort out of
it. Ya may as well become a beachbum and wait for somebody else to
have all the pain & glory.
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