To: Lee who wrote (64800 ) 9/10/1998 7:16:00 PM From: Ken Beal Respond to
*** OT ***... something that will take awhile to digest. so easy for people to educate themselves -- either go to foresight.org for free information, or send me an email asking for the book. Either way, you'll learn a whole lot in the process, at no cost to you except your time. And if you're into science fiction, it'll be an easy read.foresight.org for more).Nano is written in layman's terms, and includes a history of technology leading up to nanotechnology (Brownian motion, Einstein predicting the atom and Jean Perrin doing the grunt work to discover it, Feynman's speech in 1959 predicting this field, etc.). The bulk of the book is about Eric Drexler, who runs the Foresight Institute along with his wife, Chris Peterson (who I spoke to a few days ago -- look for another prize to be announced on their web site in the near future -- and I hope additional prizes find their way there).The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. In it, he spoke of "software khans" and "old software money" (like "old oil money" today). I have "new software money" and plan to change the world with it. (I'm no Dellionaire, but am buying as much as I can!)
