Re: low-tech borganisms

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 11:55:27 MST


Randy Smith wrote:
>
> >From: "Brian Phillips" <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net>
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> >To: <extropians@tick.javien.com>
> >Subject: low-tech borganisms
> >Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:44:56 -0500
> >
> >Lately I have been thinking about a future without widespread nano.
> >Granted
> >nano is something I hope for...but there are lots of problems (space
> >travel,
> >cryonic suspension, genetic engineering etc.) that we could solve without
> >it.
>
> Completely agree. Nano is possibly centuries away from practicality. It;s
> time to turn Gene Eng loose. Some small rogue nation ought to let it happen
> now, if the price is right.

We are "possibly" within a VR within a VR within a VR. That possibility
is actually greater imho than that we are centuries away from practical
NT. Practical nanoscale devices are in the labs and being tooled for
mass production NOW. There is no theoretical reason I am aware of to
expect the pace of new developments and mass production in NT to
slacken. The evidence is that it is accelerating.

-samantha



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