Re: Nanotech arms race worries: all smoke and no fire?

From: Robert V Hill (t.blackmore_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: 15 Jul 2004 03:33:45 GMT

"Joe" <jpsmith123@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cd2irt01qm3@enews2.newsguy.com...
> [ Moderator's note: I suspected this thread might eventually drift into
> this area since it was already knee-deep into it anyway. The post that
> Joe is replying to is mine (Jim Logajan). I will try to determine if it
is
> possible to reply such that said reply remains topical! -JimL ]
>
> >
> > Likewise, terrorism is founded on economic inequites as well a clash of
> > cultures -
>
> So, people flew planes into the World Trade Center, for example, because
of
> "economic inequities" or because of a "clash" of cultures? ROTFL!
> Nonsense.
>
> and the latter would be reduced if the economies of the cultures
> > involved were less interdependent.
>
> The latter would be reduced if the countries like the U.S. cut out the
> bloody imperialism and stopped trying to rule the world.
>

I would say it was US Consumerism and/or commercialism that lead to the 9/11
attacks. The US has been eroding cultures around the world through the use
of Movies, TV, Internet, and music, some cultures resent this. Technology
can have unseen affects on cultural stability. In the end who can say what
cultural affects Nanotech will have on what Cultures.

> If there is any technological solution
> > to economic scarcity, reduction of inequities and economic
> interdependence,
> > then nanotechnology seems to be that solution.

nanotechnology will solution some problems, but it will Create others.
>
> The problem isn't "economic scarcity", rather, it's insatiable greed and
> lust for power, and the injustice that results.
>
I agreee with this and nanotechnology will not solve these problems

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