Re: Submolecular nanotech [WAS: Goals]

Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Tue, 25 May 1999 00:03:21 PDT

On Sun, 23 May 1999 23:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

>(However, I honestly believe no utility fog will be ever built, since
>we either screw us up first *real tight*, or evolve beyond the
>necessety of needing utility fog at all before we have a chance of
>building it.
Oh, but it's such a neat hack. And, we can build it without FDA approval!
(Or in _your_ jurisdiction, a CE mark under EN601-1, i.e. not quite as bad, but almost)
I predict it will be the second thing constructed after a true assembler.

> If you can work with electronically excited states
>and photons, why on earth would you want to drag atoms around?
>(Disclaimer: system maintenance and coevolutionary artefacts
>excluding)).
Gosh. Because they don't wiggle around so much. After all, the excitation lasers have to built from something, don't they?



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