Tim Cavanaugh | October 27, 2004
Ron Bailey says let's get small at the Foresight Institute's nanotech conference.
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I don't know, but there ought to be a warning label on those things. They're dangerous!
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.
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.
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.
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