Nanotech: "Smart Fabrics"

Reidar Gunn writes: "This article is about nano technology... I read it over to make sure I was really reading what I read! Red to Blue cloths, sizes going from bigger to smaller... Wonder if they'll make wireless clothes with a subscription service, Yah never know! Logo changing shirts eh!"

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What about the textile industry?

[Kiss the Blade]

Any man of history, a proper Renaissance man gifted with an intelligence that appraises not just the technical, but the artistic & historical too, will be aware that the first modern political revolutionaries were spawned from the 19th century revolution in the textiles industry in England. We called them the Luddites - they smashed looms with an anti-technological passion first expressed among the Satanic Mills of 19th Century Lancashire.

Do we really want to bring those days back?

A man is nothing without a job, unless man has a reason for existence, be it tilling the soil or repetitively inserting screws on an assembly line, he is nothing, for work maketh a man.

Nanotechnology changes all this - the technology does the work. With this new technology, it looks as though the textiles industry will be the first to suffer once again. Clothes will manufacture themselves, and the honest worker in the clothing industry will become as the ancient hand weavers, non-existent.

This is the stuff revolutions are made off gentlemen. By supporting nanotechnology you are supporting revolution, both technological and, much more dangerously, social.

I for one support nanotechnology for I believe it brings the day of revolt closer, the day when we can throw of thw chains of government, corporation and society comes ever closer with ever little gear wheel an MIT professor makes.

Nanotechnology will change the world, and bring the vision of Trotsky that little bit closer.