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