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The Promise and Existential Risks of Nanotechnology (Plus Free book)

The Promise and Existential Risks of Nanotechnology (Plus Free book)

Juan Cole 04/02/2014

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Video by Dr. Kim Solez on Existential Risks [of Nanotechnology] prepared for the Lifeboat Foundation. The Bill Joy video excerpt from the year 2000 in “The Future Doesn’t Need Us” segment at 7:05 no longer exists separately on the net so this is one of the few places where one can still see it.

As a special offer to Informed Comment readers, the Kindle version of the Lifeboat Foundation’s first book, “The Human Race to the Future”, is being offered *FREE* April 3 through April 5 at http://amzn.to/19H3qf0. A discounted version of the paperback version is also available at http://amzn.to/1cujxeG.

This 2014 Edition was awarded the “Peer Reviewed & Approved for Science” seal of the Washington Academy of Sciences which was founded in 1898. 10 Nobel Prize laureates have participated in the academy’s peer-reviewed “Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences” over the past century.

Daniel Berleant, The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen – and What to Do

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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