We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Nanotechnology Roadmap announced The Foresight Institute released its Nanotechnology Roadmap today. According to the Press Release:
“For the first time, progress across all key nanoscale disciplines has been brought together into R&D pathways leading to atomically-precise manufacturing, with revolutionary applications to medicine, smart materials, and energy,” said Jim Von Ehr, Founder and chief executive officer of Zyvex Labs, Foresight Board of Directors member, and Roadmap Steering Committee member. “We look forward to hearing from technologists in industry, academia, and government on their thoughts about this roadmap, and their suggestions for improvement in the next version.”
You can find all of this and more here.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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I remember reading Engines of Creation 10 years ago and being blown away. If this technology can be made to work the next 30 years is going to be very interesting indeed.
I was a bit disappointed by this bit, though:
The only thing governments are likely to do is get in the way.
Rob: Go check the “thanks to” section in the front of Engines of Creation and see how many names you recognize.
One name in particular stands out. Until now I thought I had found Drexler and Smaizdata by completely different paths. Now I’m thinking there’s a theory about lovers of technology and liberty in there somewhere…
Go check the “thanks to” section in the front of Engines of Creation and see how many names you recognize.
My copy is packed away in storage. Want to tell us all?
Until now I thought I had found Drexler and Smaizdata by completely different paths. Now I’m thinking there’s a theory about lovers of technology and liberty in there somewhere…
I get the impression we are fascinated by ideas. Even if we do, after consideration, reject a load of them as complete moonbattery.
It’s here.
Pretty much what I expected to see I guess. Still, to be included in a list which includes Freeman Dyson and Marvin Minsky would be a bit of a buzz.