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> I've read some postings by Mr. Donaldson (and was impressed by them), 
> but I haven't run across the phrase "capital-N Nanotechnology".  
> How is this differ from, say, "n"anotechnology?

Capital-N Nanotechnology assumes the same role as "the revolution"
in old Communist tracts, or "the Rapture" in fundamentalist Christian
dogma -- when Nanotechnology gets here, everything will be possible
and the world will be made new and no one will ever have any problems
ever again.  It's taking a religious attitude toward nanotech and
ignoring both the possible downsides (conscientiously stressed
in both _Engines_ and _Unbounding_) and the possibility that not all
problems have technological solutions.  JoSH has an excellent article
on the subject in Extropy #9.	

> >...For example, Pat
> >Robertson (televangelist) has mentioned "Engines" on his "700 Club" 
> >television program.
> 
> What did he have to say about it?  
> --Will
> willdye@helios.unl.edu

My knowledge of the mention is second-hand.  As I recall, he showed
the book to the camera and said it was good.  My informant is under
the impression that Robertson was recommending the book on someone
else's say-so, rather than having read it himself.
					dk