Re: Hypothetical scenario



"Jim Logajan" <JamesL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Winston Smith" <wintstonsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lets say the U.S. government were to offer a prize of $1 trillion to
the first person to build an assembler. Completely tax free of course.

Tax free? Depends on whether you're on the receiving end or "giving" end.

This would be quite an incentive for anyone. Do you think we would see
one within a few years?

(You'd need to define "assembler" in a way that doesn't allow someone to
submit some variant of existing organic cells.)

Anyway, no I don't think that sort of incentive would help. Incentives
aren't the problem.


If the problem isn't money, what is it? Lack of people interested in working
in the nanotech field?



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