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From att!cup.portal.com!Eric_S_Klien Thu May 30 16:01:30 PDT 1991
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Subject: Nanotechnology
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 16:01:30 PDT
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"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

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