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From: macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Engines of Creation: Nanotechnology
Message-ID: <2698@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 00:16:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 00:16:51 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Nov-87 02:17:09 EST
References: <799@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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Keywords: nanotechnology foresight drexler

In article <799@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dji@sbcs (David J Iannucci) writes:

> Has anyone
>else even read _EOC_?  I can't believe I haven't seen any discussion of it
>in this group.

When I first found out about the net, I wrote a short message describing
some details of nanotechnology, then a long magazine-length article about
nanotechnology and Buckminster Fuller's concept of "ephemeralization".

I posted these to sci.physics and sci.space and possibly one other group.
There were alomst no responses.  I was baffled, given the obvious 
intelligence of the net.readers, that nobody wanted to talk about the
fantastic claims and possibilities that Drexler comes up with.  Perhaps
we've heard so much bad news that we cannot believe anything good can 
happen.  Or perhaps it all sounds like some Omni-magazine pseudoscience
fairytale.  I don't know; I stopped trying to stir up interest. 

Every now and then somebody will bring up Drexler in some context, like
the fellow in sci.space who mentioned that with nanotechnology we could
send nanobuilders ahead of the colonization ships and have cities 
ready when the colonists arrive.