It will only be expensive until they get the details worked out. When we have functional nanobots it will be possible for them to reproduce anything we can imagine for no cost at all. What will happen to society when the actual cost of manufacturing everything we have to buy today is essentially free?
Making a car (or any physical object) will be just like creating software. After the design is completed, it costs nothing to reproduce.
With nanotechnology, everything becomes software.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the only obvious choice - Kyle McLachlan playing Agent Cooper (from Twin Peaks). It would be nice if they could work Sherilyn Fenn in somewhere too.
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This certainly qualifies as "neutral or positive".
You don't know that for sure. They might really hate themselves.
Better yet, imagine COBOL in German.
It will only be expensive until they get the details worked out. When we have functional nanobots it will be possible for them to reproduce anything we can imagine for no cost at all. What will happen to society when the actual cost of manufacturing everything we have to buy today is essentially free? Making a car (or any physical object) will be just like creating software. After the design is completed, it costs nothing to reproduce. With nanotechnology, everything becomes software.
And Bill Karwin has created IBPerl to access Interbase from Perl. His web page is at http://www.karwin.com.
No, that is a separate project. Haven't you received a copy of the email announcing echelon@home?
I can't believe no one has mentioned the only obvious choice - Kyle McLachlan playing Agent Cooper (from Twin Peaks). It would be nice if they could work Sherilyn Fenn in somewhere too.