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[Reno]

Ive talked to numerous people about nanotech and all think it will be groundbreaking one way or another, but the biggest worry is about the initial implications directly afterwards to our world culture. Do you think our governments will try and hold us back or do you think it will be impossible to do so and the governments will implode due to a lack of control? Ever see xmen? Can you see anarchy afterwards, with a drive for a complete independance? Bare witness to a new evolution of man that can move forth to the stars. Or do you think that the majority of the world will lack the foresight to know the possibilities and implications of what they have? Or the last horror of some scientist screwing the pooch and unintentially unleashing some horrible nanoplague forth on an unsuspecting ignorant earth population.

[Mind]

I am banking on that fact that the world is becoming more connected and transparent. Nanotech and other mind/body enhancements should allow our minds to be in closer connection with each other. It will be harder for people to create havoc when they are constantly connected to the rest of the world through brain/computer interfaces, the internet, and sensor nets. People who are not connected will not have the brainpower to "ruin" it for the rest of us.

Some people have described your scenario as a race between superintelligence and super weapons.

[th3hegem0n]

Pre-Singularity Nanotechnology is very implausible, in my opinion.

[JonesGuy]

How are you defining nanotechnology, then? We have oodles of nanotechnology now.