X-Message-Number: 347 From att!cup.portal.com!Eric_S_Klien Thu May 30 16:01:30 PDT 1991 To: From: Subject: Nanotechnology Date: Thu, 30 May 91 16:01:30 PDT Message-Id: <> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) "Would Eric Klien or some other exponent of this world view (theology?) explain in simple terms just what this Nanotechnology is?" Nanotechnology will give us lots of great stuff including the cure for the disease of aging. It won't give us an unlimited source of energy, though. (Or enable us to break the speed of light, or travel back in time...) "For instance, I had a very strange experience not long ago. Someone who (I think) is a Believer claimed that when Nanotechnology came, the tiny critters could be used to cure cancer. When I pointed out that almost the same thing, and to the same effect, was happening now by experi- mental treatments in which lymphocytes were modified and cultured up in large number to attack a patient's cancer, he seemed not to notice, shrugging it off with the statement that Nanotechnology will do much more." Nanotechnology is, of course, related to other scientific fields. The ability to modify lymphocytes IS the ability to modify small things. Nanotechnology is the ability to build small things. While there is some difference between modifying and building something, the same principles are involved. Eric Klien Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=347