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The Law And Nanotechnology
YIAAL writes: "An article in Smalltimes raises the issue of legal implications of nanotechnology in all sorts of areas. Would nanoweapons be treated as chemical or biological weapons, or do they need a new treaty? If you can use nanotechnology to copy anything and then share the "plans" with friends who can use nanotechnology to make copies of their own, is it like Napster for the material world?" The gray goo problem - accidentally releasing a self-replicating device that turns the entire world into copies of itself - is going to be a huge spur for close regulation of nano-devices.
You obviously don't know how the system works too well, do you? If you take all forms of money and barter away, the economy becomes non-existant, and the government has no way to control anyone. Money, like religion, is just another means of seperating and controlling people.
All governments, especially the pathetic United States, will crumble once Nanotechnology comes out of the womb; I guarantee it.