Re: Nanotechnology "X Prize"

From: Russell Wallace (wallacethinmintr_at_eircom.net)
Date: 10/15/04

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    On 14 Oct 2004 20:48:08 GMT, "Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    >Ok, how about a much more modest goal. Any machine that can replicate itself
    >from raw materials regardless of size. Five year goal, $5 million prize.

    We're a lot more than 5 years from that being possible (unless you're
    willing to define complex components as raw materials, in which case
    the result wouldn't be useful).

    If you're serious about trying to drum up funding for this, here's the
    lesson I'd take from the X prize - they offered it for _suborbital_
    flight, a reasonably attainable goal. I'd pick some equivalent in
    nanotechnology, some small intermediate goal reasonably doable by a
    team of a few smart people working hard for a couple of years. 

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