[extropy-chat] Smalley, Drexler and the monster in Lake Michigan

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> 
> If we want to know why politics is so complex this is
> sure a good example.
> 
> Robert
> 
>         ------------------------------
> 
> What's so complex?  Smalley is a meta-honcho--likely
> on the short list for honcho--near the summit a
> multi-billion dollar public research money pile. 
> Quite a career accomplishment.  
> 
> The top down approach to nano reaches out from the
> broad margins of current capabilities, can absorb
> research billions easily, and can deliver
> immediately-usable science and tech as it expands
> those margins.

I'm not too concerned, myself. So what if they are leery of even
allowing potentially grey gooish technolgies be developed? What they
intend to fund will build a lot of the tools that will be needed to
accomplish a self assembler technology anyways. All this does is ensure
that the self-assembler technology will be developed solely as a
private enterprise, with no federal mucking about or potential military confiscation.

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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