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Don't Stymie Nanotech

Posted by Hemos on from the let-science-be-free dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A new paper released by the Pacific Research Institute says that nanotechnology holds benefits for society if not blocked by misguided regulation or outright bans. Already, some prominent individuals (like Bill Joy) have questioned the rationale of continuing nanotech research - PRI's paper explains that nanotech has more benefits than drawbacks, and that bans and heavy regulation are not in society's best interests"

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  1. Bill Joy by ClosedSource · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps he's just upset because they didn't call it Janotechnology.

  2. w00t! by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 2, Funny

    This paper is good news for my WORLD DOMINATION plan to enslave the human race as borg drones! Yay for nanotech!

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  3. Bow to me by Woy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll just go and patent Nanotechnology, and then when the grey goo spawns continents, i'll demand control of it and rule the planet.

    MUAHAHAHA

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  4. Re:These people have no idea what nanotech IS by shaitand · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Think about present-day nanotech as assembly language on a mainframe in the 1950s and future nanotech as Visual Basic on a P4 laptop."

    So let me see if I'm getting this, your saying present day nanotech is small, fast, and efficient, but in the future nanotech will be big, bloated, slow, and propietary? Is this a prediction microsoft will go into nanotech also? Will my color changing nanotech t-shirt need to reboot 5 times a day?