[extropy-chat] $2.4 million for nanotech - but....

[BillK]

http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2004/06/21/daily30.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Vanderbilt School of Engineering is leading a new $2.4 million,
multi-institutional nanotechnology program funded by the U.S. Army
Research Laboratory to develop improved electronics, sensors, energy
conversion devices and other defense systems.

Initial goals of the program include developing diamond/carbon
nanostructures for biological and chemical sensors, developing a new
energy-conversion device, and developing electron emission devices for
advanced electronics.

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I  seem to remember the suggestion has been made here before that nanotech and 
advanced AI would probably be developed first by the military.

Who's up for a Pentagon-Friendly AI? or diamondoid missiles?

BillK