Ditherati Most people have a desire to look at the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. Relinquishing Dangerous Technology in response to Bill Joy's The Future Doesn't Need Us. I believe this applies to the pursuit of knowledege as well. If the pursuit of nanotechnology is to be relinquished it will be because people in a position to pursue it have decided not to pursue it, despite its promise of wealth or power. For example, Apache sailed past the 10 million mark, which sounds impressive.
People are stupid.
God wants it. It's cover for powerful people to use as a weapon against the masses. It's part of God's plan, in the chapter on population control. Talk to me in Threads. Now it appears that the Feds are investigating Warshavsky for possibly laundering money through foreign bank accounts to evade US income tax.