<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Adrian Tymes</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:27 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> ExI chat list</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] How are we going to do this?t to buy the rest.<BR><BR><BR>That's what they say. It makes a comfortable<BR>rationalization. But watch what happens in most cases<BR>when former opponents of a technology realize they,<BR>personally, stand to benefit a lot from it. (Which<BR>includes having had the "it's too difficult/too<BR>expensive for me to play with" problem solved.) For<BR>one good example, look at access to the 'Net under<BR>repressive governments: people might officially tout<BR>the party line, but only those who stand to lose power<BR>(the government itself) actually try to restrict the<BR>tech.<BR><BR> What you say is true, but the problem still remains. Suppose in the near future, we wake up one day to find the first assembler nanites have been created. One week later, Congress bans nanotechnology( not to mention dozens of other governments probably, as you said think of what they would lose). What would we do? <BR> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>