> I think folks are too stuck on the notion that changes must be
> incomprehensible - you don't know what you can or can't understand
> until you try. And you haven't really tried until you've used the
> best intellectual tools available.
I think the word "incomprehensible" arises so often in this context not
so much because it is meant verbatim, but because so many economists and
other specialists tied into today's systems appear so utterly incapable
of making the (fairly small) mental leap under which nanotech unravels
almost entirely the fabric of today's systems and institutions. Sure,
it's not really "incomprehensible" at all, but it might just as well be,
as far as they are concerned.
Rich.
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