Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: The Cryonic Nation Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 20:56:50 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 23 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu [] "It seems obvious to me the cryonic nation will see the living population as a danger which they won't be able to tolerate. You can't sterilize these people because they don't want to be sterilized ..." A group that controlled nanotechnology could sterilize anyone they chose by releasing appropriately targetted nano-devices into the environment. Such a group might well decide that involuntary (and, possibly, unwitting) sterilization would be the least of all evils. -=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA] [There is a run-of-the-mill science fiction story by the author of Colossus: the Forbin Project (I've forgotten names) about a biowar where the major weapon is a sterility plague. I imagine that such an agent would be relatively easy for bio-techniques, and not rely on out-and-out nanotechnology. (I.e. it could probably be done now for the cost of a Manhattan-type project.) --JoSH]