On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Mike Tintner wrote: > Nice list. Just one prob. - my guess is that for every such naysaying > prophesy you could find five from overhopeful inventors prophesying that > their invention would conquer the world & in the next n years. Turing? > Minsky? Lenat? ... Not trying to be negative - just point out that life's > complicated.
Absolutely. But Smalley's claim was that you can't make things by numerically controlled chemistry, ever. And that's idiotic, because there was plenty of evidence to the contrary when he was still alive. Similiar applies to the fact that appropriately structured piece of matter can equal or rival a human-shaped piece of matter as far as information processing is concerned. There's no point trying to predict a time frame, though. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
