Subject: [extropy-chat] Social Implications of Nanotech

[Robin Hanson]

On 11/13/2003, Curt Adams wrote:
>Without self-replication, I don't see any good reason that nanotechnology
>will produce effects fundamentally different from other revolutionary techs,
>like railroads, electricity, scientific drug design or computers.

Well each of those revolutions did produce different effects, but you might
well argue that these differences are small compared to the effect of
self-replication of programmable nano-factories.



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