From: Joao Magalhaes (jpnitya@sapo.pt)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 08:44:32 MDT
Hi!
To me, some of Greenpeace's worries are reasonable and deserve to be
discussed. What I feel would be a mistake is to try to pass on the message
that Greenpeace is just calling up attention and thwart the industry. If we
want nanotech to flourish then we must come up with solutions to some of
these problems instead of insulting the people who pose them. Otherwise, we
will eventually have governments making laws to control nanotech, stem
cells, GE, etc. For instance, the comments in the article in favour of
nanotech are incredibly arrogant. They reminded me of Monsanto's failure,
some years ago, to make Europeans accept GM crops. The strategy was not to
educate or understand their critics but instead label everyone against GM
crops as "anti-progress". Such arrogant attitude may work in the US, but
will not work in Europe. Yet if you take a look at all the legislation
rising up against stem cells, in both US and Europe, you will see that the
best way to assure transhuman technologies becomes more accepted is by
understanding the problems others pose and coming up with solutions.
All the best.
PS: I go on vacation tomorrow, so I won't be joining this, or any other,
threat until mid-August.
At 08:15 25-07-2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Bill Joy, Prince Charles, Etc Group... and now Greenpeace. Looks like a storm
>gathering, to me...
>
>Cheers,
>Fabio
>
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>
>GREENPEACE WADES INTO NANO DEBATE WITH REPORT THAT CALLS FOR CAUTION
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>http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=6408
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>Future technologies, today's choic es
>Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: A technical, es
>political and institutional map of emerging technologi es
>
>http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?
>CFID=190973&CFTOKEN=43323225&ucidparam=20030721113521
>
>
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Joao Magalhaes (joao.magalhaes@fundp.ac.be)
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