| Ognjen Strpic on Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:38:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> DNA and computers |
Ryan Griffis <[email protected]>: > ...talk about greening the "molecular invasion" we're made to > feel good about the "progress" while watching fantastic dystopias that > reafirm us as "human" (GATTACA, the Matrix, Terminator, etc.), meanwhile > no discussion in "public" arenas of current realities. well, Greenpeace recently produced an interesting report in that vein, entitled "Future Technologies, Today's Choices. Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; A technical, political and institutional map of emerging technologies." <http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5886.pdf>. it it quite sober, informed (IMHO, see also Centre for Responsible Nanotechnology, A Technical Commentary on Greenpeace's Nanotechnology Report, <http://crnano.org/Greenpeace.htm>), and socially concerned. also probably the best short intro to the state of current nanotech and AI Ognjen # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]