Nanotechnology, US Government, and Secrecy

Glenn Reynolds has written an interesting, albiet a bit speculative, in regards to the role of the US Government in the possible quieting of nanotechnology research. As Gleen points out, there's some good pre-existing guidelines to research as well, from the Foresight Institute.

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Re:NanoTech = Good, People = Bad

[HanzoSan]

Bin Laden is pissed off because we give isreal weapons to kill his people with, whos tanks and bombs are isreal using right now to surround arafat?

His people are oppressed because we help isreal but not his people, we destroyed afganastan when we funded their war against russia, that bin laden was involved in, then we didnt help him rebuild the country, so what you had was kids growing up with guns in their hands, in a wasteland war torn country. Thats not oppression?

Their government isnt all that great, but we put the taliban in there, WE gave the taliban weapons and the taliban used them to fight russia, then used them to create a government.

If i grew up around war all my life, and my family died in a war, and i was poor and in afganastan, as a kid growing up shooting people, why wouldnt i be a suicide bomber? Did we even attempt to help these kids who were walking around with machine guns? Hell no!


Fear this, because it will never, never, never happen. The day we give every Joe Sixpack the equivalent of a herd of nukes will be the day I switch my bet to amoebas as dominant lifeform on the planet.

Well expect this planet to be destroyed by joe sixpack and the herd. Its your only option. You can either educate them, or let their ignorance destroy us.