[ExI] Welcome to the Future

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:57:11AM -0700, Keith Henson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:01 AM,  Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> >
> > Stop trying to predict the future and focus on making it happen!
> 
> I try on such relatively simple topics as energy and carbon.  But
> working out the technical and economic details is difficult, tedious
> and seldom appreciated.  Few people here or any other place have the
> skills to be useful in such work, much less the more complicated MM3
> used for nanotechnology design.

Most people play in IT/CS sandboxes now. Physical layer engineering
is something what mostly happens elsewhere. This is a very serious 
problem. Luckily, elsewhere people are less isolated from reality.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9371