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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (5093)	4/25/2002 1:26:56 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

I haven't followed it closely, but I thought that Intel wanted to put ID's on all their chips, but that they had to cancel the idea due to the uproar. Tom

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (5093)	4/30/2002 11:57:12 PM
From: dwight martin	Respond to of 13056

The difference was, or would have been, that computers could not and cannot directly kill a person or destroy an object, while nannites will be able to do so. If I thought, for instance, that in 25 years anyone with a little nanotech training can turn out 30 billion particles of lethal or even annoying smart dust per hour, I might be wondering whether or not there ought to be some oversight, just as I think there may well need to be oversight of work with pentatomic nitrogen ions (Christe, et al.) afrlhorizons.com Surely, although most people are predictably reasonable, you don't want to be betting the farm on that proposition every time. You only have to be wrong once.