[extropy-chat] Re: riots in France

[Samantha Atkins]

Please spell out the dangers you allude to.

- s
On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Jef Allbright wrote:

> On 11/11/05, Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Dead cheap molecular manufacturing could end such strife - in the  
>> right
>> hands (that is - everyone's hands) But, if and when it arrives - it's
>> deliberate restriction to a privileged few could also give us  
>> strife we
>> never before considered even possible.
>> Unfortunately - I share your gloomy outlook.
>>
>
> Cheap ubiquitous molecular manufacturing could certainly end the
> strife over scarcity of subsistence level resources, but only if used
> wisely.  To put such power in everyone's hands, without first having a
> framework of rational interdependence, would be like providing
> gasoline to children playing with matches.
>
> - Jef
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