[ExI] Coursera Nanotechnology has begun

[Adam A. Ford]

I have joined - I don't have any formal background in physics or chemistry,
so I hope to just augment my basic understanding of nanotechnology by doing
this course.

I am interested in interviewing some experts in this area - results would
go on my youtube channel <http://youtube.com/TheRationalFuture> and/or H+
Magazine.

(links below will only work if you have joined the nanotechnology course
and while you are logged in to Coursera)

I am surprised at how much the course conveners refer to Drexler's views as
Science Fiction in forums and in the main lecture video:
https://class.coursera.org/nanotech-001/lecture/7

There seems to be some heated debate on the course forums so far
'Fenyman/Drexler Nanotechnology vs Nanomaterials':
https://class.coursera.org/nanotech-001/forum/thread?thread_id=31

So you can just do a forum search on 'Drexler' -
https://class.coursera.org/nanotech-001/forum/search?q=Drexler#2-state-query=Drexler


Kind regards,

Adam A. Ford
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