X-Message-Number: 17345
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:51:26 -0400
From: Keith Henson <>
Subject: Re: 17335: Scientific American Special Issue - Sept. 2001

Bryan Hall wrote

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>It is very interesting that Scientific American has come around to doing a
>cover story on nanotech. Back in 1996, a debate between SA and the Foresight
>Institute erupted after SA did a inaccurate and biased six-page news story
>on nanotechnology. For anyone interested, the debate is chronicled at
>http://www.foresight.org/SciAmDebate/

The Institute, a newsprint, members only, publication of the IEEE, August 
2001 starts 3 stories on the front page.  Two of them are on nanotech.

It just happens that I have been working on an updated article on memes for 
a little over a year.  June of last year I put nanotechnology into Google 
and it found 80,000 web pages.  June 2001 Google finds 160,000.  You can 
see we are getting there, and by this measure on a doubling time of a year.

Keith Henson

PS, memetics got 50,000 hits and evolutionary psychology 23,000.

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