From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Jul 27 1999 - 13:53:25 MDT
paul@i2.to writes:
> Please elaborate. Are we talking $10,000 of desktop equipment? A
> $100,000 laboratory? A multi-million dollar research facility?
1) Nobody knows.
2) In the beginning, it is probably the latter. However, after you pay
the bootstrap price, you can distribute second-generation assemblers
via snail mail, glued to i-dots.
The bootstrap thing is less important: if it's possible, sooner or
later it will happen. (If it's impossible we don't have to worry about
misuses).
The whole point about grassroot virtual nano tinkering is that you can
sample the design space more or less thoroughly, and assess the
technology before it hits the fan.
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