To: Fitzcarraldo
There are concerns about SI, but I'm not yet convinced we will have the technology to do it in this century. I mentioned possibly using wetware and quantum computers to do it, but that's just educated guesswork. It *might* work, and it may not.
Humans also have a blessed disinclination to carry anything to it's ultimate apocalyptic conclusion. Hopefully, that trend will hold if it turns out that it is possible.
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04/13/2006 9:04:19 AM PDT by
JamesP81
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To: JamesP81
There are concerns about SI, but I'm not yet convinced we will have the technology to do it in this century. I hope you are right. I favor a quarentined SI/nanotech solution, with assured "reboot" capability, maybe to the surface of the Moon or Venus.
Nuclear weapons were much easier to control, once they were developed. SI/nanotech will be extraordinary difficult to control, if they are developed at all.
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