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Ron Bailey says let's get small at the Foresight Institute's nanotech conference.

Comments

Douglas Fletcher | October 27, 2004, 2:29pm | #

How many little lawyers can you fit on the head of a pin?

Akria MacKenzie | October 27, 2004, 2:57pm | #

I don't know, but there ought to be a warning label on those things. They're dangerous!

jack | October 27, 2004, 5:25pm | #

I cant wait for the future; moving sidewalks, jet-packs,meals in a pill,the end of the age of material scarcity, the dawning of the experience economy. I heard all this bullshit in 1974.

Stevo Threadweakener | October 27, 2004, 5:44pm | #

Wasn't it amazing, though, when the schools replaced most of their human teachers with computerized "teaching machines" back in the 1980s?

If only those computers were cheap enough that people could buy one for their individual homes. You could store an entire encyclopedia in one of those things.

When it comes to technological forecasts, there are two types: wildly optimistic or overly conservative. I don't know which one the nanotech revolution falls under.

Ironchef | October 28, 2004, 10:06am | #

I fear for the future: population explosions, diminishing food supply, the wiping out of our natural resources, catastrophic natural events, Big Brother watching you, reckless consumerism. I heard all this bullshit in 1974. 1976. 1980. 1984. 1988. 1992. 1996. 2000. 2004.