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15 Feb 09

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transcripts of a Congressional forum on March 17, 2003
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- With the impending age boom in 2010, our nation must have a healthcare system in place that is prepared for the millions of Americans who will be living with chronic diseases, and that is able to foster the development of future treatments to meet their needs.

17 Dec 07

"Nathan Tinker, executive vice president of the NanoBusiness Alliance, recently filled me in on some of the details. In Washington last fall, alliance leaders told Sen. John McCain’s staff that the House version of the nanotech bill contained a troublesome section 'a feasibility study on “molecular manufacturing” and “self-replicating nanoscale machines.' ... The alliance told McCain’s staff that the government needs to focus on 'specific technology areas that have relatively demonstrable market potential in the next 15 years or so' and that offer a 'better return on investment,' Tinker said."
"Future marketing students might marvel at how a group of salesmen achieved political victory -- complete with requisite silencing of dissenters -- for an "industry" that does not yet exist. ... But for now, it is commerce that is driving the nanotech vision, redefining "real" nanotechnology to suit what is best for nano business. Business leaders and policy-makers did this by carefully selecting which theories are the ones the general public is supposed to believe, then marginalizing the rest."

11 Apr 07

Очень показателен сам факт появления такого отчёта. В отчёте говорится о Сингулярности около 2020 года с чётким пониманием масштаба явления.

Рекомендации и анализ особо не выделяются, кроме яростной критики противников биотехнологий и хорошего разбора их тактик. - danila on 2007-04-11

It is remarkable to find officials at this level of the U.S. government, or any large government, openly discussing dramatic possibilities that most often are dismissed as science fiction.
- Мы должны сделать, чтобы везде это стало нормой и поскорее. - on 2007-04-11
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