X-Message-Number: 32933
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:35:59 -0700
Subject: "Spotting vaporware," by Scott Locklin
From: MARK PLUS <>

The "nanotechnologist" still wears no clothes:



http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/spotting-vaporware-three-follies-of-would-be-technologists/

Locklin writes:


>Technology is what allows us our prosperity, and it must be funded and 
nurtured, but we must also avoid funding and nurturing parasites. Cargo-cult 
science and technologists are not only wasteful of money, they waste human 
capital. It makes me sad to see so many young people dedicating their lives to 
snake oil like "nanotechnology.   They'd be better off starting a business or 
learning a trade. "Vaporware technologist  would be a horrible epitaph to a 
misspent life.

--
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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