>
>As Robin Hanson pointed out, the vaccine against such a transition is to
gain a
>share in the means of production. This could be anything from owning a
small farm
>to operating a small desktop manufacturing facility. I hesitate to say
tradition
>financial investment would provide an adequate vaccine in the face of
possible
>hyper-liquidity of the market. Currencies might fluctuate so wildly that
all your
>investments could dry up before you knew what hit you.
>
Well, I will continue to amass equipment and tools that might enable me to
carve a niche for myself until I can get my hands on an assembler.. I have
a fair machine shop now, including high vacuum equipment and a scanning
electron microscope..
Chuck Kuecker