fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) (07/29/88)
This past Tuesday's NY Times Science section (July 26) had a lead article on micro-mechanical engineering, using chip etching tech- niques to fabricate infinitesimal motors and the like. One might not consider these devices to be "nanotech", since they are several orders of magnitude larger than molecular computers and other Drexler-ish devices, but they are also so very much smaller than current products of mechanical engineering that no straight- forward link between the two environments was discussed in the article. /f
fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) (07/30/88)
Has Drexler ever talked in any depth about the possible future of biowarfare ? Some years ago, as I recall, they (the military and military-watchers) talked about "biological warfare", but also about "gene warfare". Does anyone else recall this ? It seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary. #include <disclaimer.h>