Re: [Sci.nanotech] Re: Who's still reading this group?


On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:52:04 -0000
Jim Logajan <JamesL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If research and development on molecular nanotechnology is accelerating,
it obviously has no correlation to quantity or quality of posts to any of
the online forums I know about.

I think it's the case that about as much speculation about the
possibilities and consequences as is reasonable to do absent any concrete
examples has been done. We've had all the "do we need self replicating
assemblers" and "What can we do with utility fog" and even "How can we
build a food synthesiser" discussions and done them to death.

It is sad that very little news seems to be emerging about the
extent of progress or lack thereof towards molecular scale manufacturing
and the like. The conference you mentioned a while ago about "Launching the
Technology Roadmap" sounds encouraging and I for one would love to hear
about what emerges from it. Is anyone lurking here attending ?

I suspect that what we are seeing is not so much a lack of interest
as a lack of people who know what is happening talking about it.

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