I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!