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- From: dkrieger@netcom.com (David Krieger)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Re: Controlled Release (was: To Spread The Meme)
- Message-ID: <Jan.12.00.12.47.1993.24167@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 05:12:48 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- > I've read some postings by Mr. Donaldson (and was impressed by them),
- > but I haven't run across the phrase "capital-N Nanotechnology".
- > How is this differ from, say, "n"anotechnology?
-
- Capital-N Nanotechnology assumes the same role as "the revolution"
- in old Communist tracts, or "the Rapture" in fundamentalist Christian
- dogma -- when Nanotechnology gets here, everything will be possible
- and the world will be made new and no one will ever have any problems
- ever again. It's taking a religious attitude toward nanotech and
- ignoring both the possible downsides (conscientiously stressed
- in both _Engines_ and _Unbounding_) and the possibility that not all
- problems have technological solutions. JoSH has an excellent article
- on the subject in Extropy #9.
-
- > >...For example, Pat
- > >Robertson (televangelist) has mentioned "Engines" on his "700 Club"
- > >television program.
- >
- > What did he have to say about it?
- > --Will
- > willdye@helios.unl.edu
-
- My knowledge of the mention is second-hand. As I recall, he showed
- the book to the camera and said it was good. My informant is under
- the impression that Robertson was recommending the book on someone
- else's say-so, rather than having read it himself.
- dk
-