[extropy-chat] global warming eats island

[Lúcio de Souza Coelho]

On 12/29/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The world is not sinking yet, and relatively advanced bio and/or
> nanotechnology can save it and those can be available within our lifetimes.
(...)

Well, if we have highly advanced [bio|nano]tech, will we really want
to "save the world" (as we know it)? Quite on the contrary, I think
that we will want to radically transform it. (Though, granted, sinking
coastal land does not look the most interesting transformation in the
world. :)