@Ndungu I Greatly appreciate your Enthusiasm. But,what's to say that all these technologies are far beyond our reach? We have already been able to achieve such greatness in the Techie field, A Kenyan has even represented us on TED! We hosted a TedEx less than a month ago. We are the junkyard of the technology world and always recieve things last in line from the rest of the world. And we keep taking it. Why? What decrees that we are at the bottom of the food chain? I believe that we have the capacity to come up with never the Next of anything but the FIRSTS. The First Replicator Maybe. The first Car that costs only 100K to buy and relies on Solar energy or on Recyclable energy only. Why Should we not be able to accomplish what we want? Should we only rely on other's accomplishments to then further their knowledge? I am not working at recreating the wheel, it's a simple question. Are we comfortable sitting in third, fourth or last place while the rest of the world takes off around us? On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:44 PM, ndungu stephen wrote:
Well, people are gonna use it to start generating money / gold / weapons. I think world hunger will come last.
Reminds me of 'Prison Break's' Scylla - some very good technology - but people try to fill their artillery and treasury first before solving humanity issues...
@Rahim
I have always been thinking for sometime about 'nanobots' [aka nanites, nano-technology] - if normal drugs cant cure viral diseases like HIV - then why not the engineers try it ?
With nanites, you can populate and program them to hunt and destroy - and given a few months - someone will be completely 'fixed'.
I dont know how they will be powered , mabbe fuel cells that are fed with water to produce hydrogen and oxygen internally?
Still far fetched as we speak, because it falls in the realm of quatum computing [and they still havent figured out how to stabilize an electron movement in an atom to make it follow a straight repetitive non decaying path to represent 0s and 1s]
- but why not ?
[of course I want to discount all those evil theories revolving around letting an intelligent nanoscopic antigen into your body - and we can also avoid to use them to create superhuman strenghts for war purposes - so we can focus on the positive right?] _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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