-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:24 AM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
We are probably still several decades away from the mechanosynthesis form of nanotech, presumably less far away from biological forms.
But we are much closer to desktop fab stations for larger items. You can already buy one to "print" 3-D parts from CAD files. Good for model making but even good enough for other uses where "hard" hardness is not required. Pricey though.
Such "dangerous knowledge" will join bombmaking instructions in being added to Fineswine's law. Downloading of instructuctions for NC machine tools, too, if the instructions are for zip guns and even real guns.
Course they haven't managed to ban "Submachine Guns for the Home Workshop" or compact "hobby" milling stations yet, have they. DCF "Use a lathe go to jail." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM8VL8oVO4r4sgSPhAQHjhgQApsIpPUK+LzK3UZah6KMjmkBR/VIcEx5l 7WNq9R8EbjCl9QnPNUpF1f/61LusE43IQ8+SKNfG41Y3PbO1WGcdIj0vLAgPaNWh KceGTIfa1zY8n2D1+/AR9D8lHd+3BlvtIXdx1JtOLWZedeBBOxMMo6TyWlRIbdXa v3/oQ/1PzdI= =ahJ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----