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From: t05rrs%mpx1@LANL.GOV (Dick Silbar)
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Subject: Re: intelligent nanocomupters
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Date: 25 Jan 88 19:14:31 GMT
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David West replied to Godden's query about Drexler's work in a sardonic way,
I think, by extrapolating the earlier remark to "...such a machine could then
just be allowed to run and should be able to accomplish a century of progress
in one hour."  I am reminded of a novel some years back by Robert Forward,
"Dragon's Egg", in which just that did happen in a civilization living on the
surface of a neutron star.