My January talk at Foresight 2010, Economics of Nanotech and AI, is now available: video, slides. Seems I had a habit of messing my hair while talking. Silly me.
yeah.. what was with the question at the end about the guy who didn't believe that modern economies are actually growing. Something about paranoid mistrust of gov't data. weird.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say he sounded a bit like Michael Vassar.
I think you are underestimating the potential impact of nanotech. Nanotech in it's most blue sky form is mot about transforming manufacuring. It is about transforming the entire material economy. This means retail, wholesale, transportation, construction, utilities, manfacturing, food service and health care.
If the material world can be precisely and cheaply altered by machines then deciding what to do and programing machines to do it will dominate human occupations.
yeah.. what was with the question at the end about the guy who didn't believe that modern economies are actually growing. Something about paranoid mistrust of gov't data. weird.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say he sounded a bit like Michael Vassar.
Robin:
I think you are underestimating the potential impact of nanotech. Nanotech in it's most blue sky form is mot about transforming manufacuring. It is about transforming the entire material economy. This means retail, wholesale, transportation, construction, utilities, manfacturing, food service and health care.
If the material world can be precisely and cheaply altered by machines then deciding what to do and programing machines to do it will dominate human occupations.