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From: glg@sfsup.UUCP (G.Gleason)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Engines of Creation: Nanotechnology
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 20:10:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 20:10:21 1987
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In article <2698@drivax.UUCP> macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod) writes:
>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 don't know why there was not much response before, maybe not many
people were familiar with his ideas yet.  Interesting that you should
bring up Fuller, since I just finished reading _Critical_Path_ (I'm
still working on _EoC_).  I see many parallels between what the two
of them are saying.  _EoC_ clearly extends some of Fuller's projections
much further into the future, as it should since Drexler grew up in the
world that Fuller projected when he was younger.

I didn't see your articles, if it has been quite some time you might
consider reposting.  There have also been several articles on _EoC_
in comp.society.futures that you might want to check out.

Gerry Gleason