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- From: ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Re: Evolution and nanotech
- Message-ID: <Sep.15.17.08.27.1992.22260@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:08:28 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- In article <Sep.9.08.55.28.1992.13631@planchet.rutgers.edu> tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich) writes:
- >In article <Sep.8.16.35.25.1992.1306@planchet.rutgers.edu> ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles) writes:
- >>
- >> Umm... maybe it's just me, but I think that the developments
- >>you're proposing are indistinguishable from nanotechnology.
-
- I understood that you were proposing competitors that were capable
- of everything 'nanotech' is projected to be capable of. In that
- context, whether you call it 'chemistry,' 'biotechnology,' or 'pastafazoola'
- is not really relevant.
- Since the present state of biotechnology, etc. is *far* short of what
- the theoretical maximums are, (as JoSH pointed out) I don't really see
- where you could call them 'nanotech' in that sense.
- I apologize if I was unclear on this point.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Ray Ingles || The above opinions are probably
- || not those of the University of
- ingles@caen.engin.umich.edu || Michigan. Yet.
-