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To: Clappy who wrote (16542)	8/28/2002 7:35:36 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104155

RE: Lurqer's PC Magazine article... First it made me happy. Then it made me a bit scared. And then itchy. And then nervous. But then I realized it sort of enlightened me. yeah. exactly. me2. and it also made me nostalgic. did you notice that it was a year old? did you notice that nobody talks about technology anymore? except how it might be used to combat things. technology belongs to the military. nerds, citizens and scientists must keep hands off. GWB and crew never mention it. they haven't even learned how to use email yet. how could they lead an information revolution? all information is classified "secret". it could educate people. poor people in third world countries... our ENEMIES could use it to become smarter than our government officials. this will not do. where is satirewire when you need it? - this is a good story idea.

To: Clappy who wrote (16542)	8/28/2002 7:50:45 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

I know people go on vacation in August, but this is bizarre. internettrafficreport.com lurqer

To: Clappy who wrote (16542)	8/28/2002 8:20:02 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 104155

if you are reading this message Donning his most pretentious herald outfit (with bugle), Don lurqer Quixote mounts the snorting charger and gallops off shouting: THE NANOBOTS ARE COMING! THE NANOBOTS ARE COMING! THE NANOBOTS ARE COMING! See: foresight.org lurqer

To: Clappy who wrote (16542)	8/29/2002 8:27:45 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104155

Intresting article. I first read about nanotech maybe 10 years ago, in my alumni mag. I think there was a lot of discussion about medicine; little nanobots going around eating cancers, etc. Machine dominance has long been a theme in sci-fi. I'm glad to see the beginning of a dialog beginning about the possibility of it. Needs to be more discussion of the applications of genetic engineering, too, especially where it relates to agriculture. This stuff is getting out into the planet's germ stream too fast; sort of like the early use of antibiotics, which unknowingly began the creation of ab. resistant bacteria.. These genies (jinns and genes) are hard to get back in the bottle once they have tasted freedom. When you open a can of worms, it takes a bigger can to put them all back. Ratworm@ludditesoc.org