Re: Chris Phoenix's review of Nanocosm

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 23:33:26 MDT

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    "Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>

    > There's a new book on nanotech out, called Nanocosm, by William Illsey
    > Atkinson. Based on the reviews I've seen, it's a terrible book.

    Funny you should mention that, I was in a bookstore just today and read a
    bit of the thing, it didn't take me long to realize it was a real stinker.
    At one point he concludes that one of Drexler's nano machines would have to
    rotate more than 5 million times a second as if that was proof it wouldn't
    work but later he can find no problem with a machine that would violate the
    second law of thermodynamics. The man was not only ignorant he was downright
    nasty and personal in his insults of Drexler. Needless to say I didn't buy
    the book.

               John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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