Comments on: U.S. Army program to foster nanotech in academia, industry http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=1171 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mr_Farlops http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=1171#comment-2633 Mr_Farlops Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:21:34 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=1171#comment-2633 <p><strong>Time for some arms control agreements?</strong></p> <p>With the Canadians, Chinese, Russians, British, Israelis, French, Mexicans, South Africans, Indians, Indonesians, etc., etc. all beginning to jump on the bandwagon, isn't it time for some military research agreements?<br /> <br /> Or is this all doomed to failure?<br /> <br /> How do we arrange things so that all countries conducting nanotech research see that it's in <strong>their own best interest</strong> to conduct it in the open?<br /> <br /> How do we do this without turning the world into a panopticon run by a police state? Or, much more likely I think, a panopticon run by multinational corporations who buy influence in international policy to rigidly enforce regressive IP law?</p> Time for some arms control agreements?

With the Canadians, Chinese, Russians, British, Israelis, French, Mexicans, South Africans, Indians, Indonesians, etc., etc. all beginning to jump on the bandwagon, isn't it time for some military research agreements?

Or is this all doomed to failure?

How do we arrange things so that all countries conducting nanotech research see that it's in their own best interest to conduct it in the open?

How do we do this without turning the world into a panopticon run by a police state? Or, much more likely I think, a panopticon run by multinational corporations who buy influence in international policy to rigidly enforce regressive IP law?

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