"Mark Phillips" <clay8@hotmail.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, Craig, you may be right. Hopefully, though, we extropians,
What was the BREAKTHROUGH of computers? What was the BREAKTHROUGH of
chemical synthesis? What was the BREAKTHROUGH of modern medicine?
Technological development is a broad front, not a race for a single
breakthrough. The exception may be when trying to use a completely new
physical principle, but nanotech is well within the spheres of
chemistry, physics and biology.
> venturists, and especially Drexler and his group and (BC)Crandall and his
> group, may be able to keep nanotech RESEARCH, and, thus, the BREAKTHROUGH,
> in the public/commercial sector of the society. If not, we may all be
> (nano-)screwed!!
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