[extropy-chat] Technology and police states...

[Robert J. Bradbury]

Well, as some of you may know Bill Joy is back at it again
arguing that technology(knowledge) should only be available
to science guilds and that science development [what about
software development???] should be required to carry insurance
against catastrophes.

See:
http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/0149240
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/06/1655234

Now of course we have the police state developing methods that
would allow them to electroshock (taser) entire crowds (and
vehicles):

Sweeping stun guns to target crowds
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996014

Of course one has to wonder if they can stop this...

Build it Big (re: a 224 ton truck designed by Francis Bartley)
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns24521

And returning to the police state run amok...

Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA by Mark Baard
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63637,00.html
or
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63637,00.html

The story of the sealed search warrant obtained by the FBI and
the arrest of Steve Kurtz for manipulating bacteria at home
for the purpose of creating art.

An offshore enclave is starting to look more and more appealing
at this point...

Robert