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Jim Logajan
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 Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: 20 year anniversary of sci.nanotech |
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I'm posting this now lest I forget to mention it when the actual date
rolls around, but for the handful of you still out there reading this
group, this newsgroup will have been around 20 years come May 10th.
J. Storrs Hall sent out the first post on that day 20 years ago:
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Date: Tue, 10 May 88 03:22:27 EDT
From: j...@aramis.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall)
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To: nanotech
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Welcome to the nanotechnology newsgroup. This message is largely a test
of the slightly arcane software we have set up to handle the postings.
sci.nanotech is for the discussion of molecular technology. As Herbert
Hoover might have said, "De novo enzyme design is just around the
corner." At first, I'll take "Engines of Creation" as a
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the group. This will expand or contract dynamically depending on volume
and quality of postings.
Because the moderator tables take a while to update all over the net,
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: 20 year anniversary of sci.nanotech |
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In article <13ubmc212so6l25@news.supernews.com>, Jim Logajan <JamesL@lugoj.com>
writes:
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I'm posting this now lest I forget to mention it when the actual date
rolls around, but for the handful of you still out there reading this
group, this newsgroup will have been around 20 years come May 10th.
J. Storrs Hall sent out the first post on that day 20 years ago:
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And are nanotech assemblers still 20 years away ?
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.nanotech/msg/35f4b2ad425c55ac
David Webb
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---- Original Message ----
From josh Tue May 10 03:22:35 1988
Received: by klaatu.rutgers.edu (5.54/1.15)
id AA00342; Tue, 10 May 88 03:22:27 EDT
Date: Tue, 10 May 88 03:22:27 EDT
From: j...@aramis.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall)
Message-Id: <8805100722.AA00342@klaatu.rutgers.edu
To: nanotech
Status: RO
Welcome to the nanotechnology newsgroup. This message is largely a test
of the slightly arcane software we have set up to handle the postings.
sci.nanotech is for the discussion of molecular technology. As Herbert
Hoover might have said, "De novo enzyme design is just around the
corner." At first, I'll take "Engines of Creation" as a
definition-by-example of the subject matter considered appropriate for
the group. This will expand or contract dynamically depending on volume
and quality of postings.
Because the moderator tables take a while to update all over the net,
don't post any messages to this group for a couple of days--they will
just bounce if your nearest backbone site isn't updated yet. You can
mail postings to nanot...@aramis.rutgers.edu. This will always work,
and will eventually be what happens when you post from news.
I'd like to thank everyone who voted for the list, and also Mel
Pleasant, who set it up for me.
--JoSH
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:29 am Post subject: Re: 20 year anniversary of sci.nanotech |
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david20@alpha1.mdx.ac.uk wrote:
IMO, decent nanotechnology not directly derived from
today's biology will /probably/ arrive within a few
years of us getting a decent AI, when the build-test-publish
cycles no longer have humans in them.
This will include programmable assemblers - though their
synthesis capabilities and temporal performance
characteristics are not obvious to me. General-purpose
assemblers may get used mainly for prototyping and
"speciality items" since they will probably not be
cost-effective for much else. There may be more
demand for "speciality items" at that point, though.
Molecular computers may arrive quite a while before this.
IMO, "20 years away" may be a bit optimistic - but
predicting the dates of AI breakthroughs is difficult,
and so it's hard to say for sure.
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