Meeting notice: The 02.July.02 meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at 
the Royal East (782 Main St., Cambridge), a block down from the corner 
of Main St. and Mass Ave.  If you're new and can't recognize us, ask 
the manager. He'll probably know where we are.  More details below.


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Suggested topic: Goth NT

The risks of NT most often discussed are those that proceed from adult 
motives -- NT as an extension of state or corporate or sect power.  We 
have never really looked into "Goth NT": how two or three bright, 
bitterly antisocial, fifteen year olds might use replicating 
nanoautomata to express their particular passions.  This might be a 
mistake, in that there are certainly hundreds of thousands of 
teenagers around the globe with a level of nihilism sufficient to 
justify acts more than worth our attention.  

Fortunately or not, the acts of such kids are not the same as those a 
true sociopath might dream up.   A nerd Goth, or Goth nerd, might 
think it amusing to devise a fabric worm such that every teacher in 
his school loses their clothes at the same time, or an ignition worm 
that stops all traffic at a given hour, or a set of cells that turn 
city drinking water the color of blood, or to figure out a device that 
secretes itself in body crevices and generates an uncontrollable and 
unendurably offensive body odor, and so on.  While it is true that 
adults are likely to have much destructive ambitions,  Al-
Quida operatives are few and heavily watched;  nerds with 
underdeveloped frontal lobes are everywhere, and usually not watched 
at all.  It seems more likely that if any NT goes embrarrassingly 
astray, it will be in service of silly adolescent fantasies, and thus
it behooves us to try to think of these fantasies first.

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In twenty years half the population of Europe will have visited the moon.

				-- Jules Verne, 1865

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Legend:

"NSG" expands to Nanotechnology Study Group.  The Group meets on 
the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the above address, 
which refers to a restaurant located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

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