[extropy-chat] Social Implications of Nanotech

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:

>The first time I read "Diamond Age" I laughed. Apart from broken physics in a
>whole number of places, the future described was ludicrously incongrous. No
>superhuman AI. Biology-based infoprocessing being competitive to dry nanoware.
>Containable gray goo. Ridiculous. Nice science fiction, though. Snow Crash
>was considerably better, however. Lots more realistic.

You know, I tried compressing my mailbox today. But when gzip found
Eugen's posts, it stopped with a sigh and said: "sorry, no entropy to be
found here".

Just kidding :-)

Ciaoa,
Alfio