Re: [Sci.nanotech] Re: Nano Morality



rhooker123@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
You remind me of the 1980s when people said speech recon would be 10
years away.

And they were right -- speech recognition is used quite routinely
these days for all sorts of tasks, from medical transcription to
helping people book airline tickets.

I wonder if you can name me a firm or research company that says it
will produce diamonds from carbon in say 10 years.

There are already firms producing diamonds for jewelry from carbon at
quite competitive cost. Industrial diamonds have been produced by
artificial means for decades.

I think we need to admit to the reality that our social institutions
are losing power to technology, that our culture is being more and more
dominated by the patterns and structures that machines make possible,

I think that culture has been dominated by technology since the
development of agriculture. Possibly since the development of stone
tools, in fact...

Perry

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