Chatted with nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9 about Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” over lunch today and now I can’t get it out of my head. Overdue for a re-read. What ever happened to the nano-tech future we were promised? 
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Thats something that gets some good exploration in “where is my flying car?” https://press.stripe.com/where-is-my-flying-car
I just read this for the first time. It truly is the goal of AI and technology: self actualization.
What we have now is panopticons and over commercialization
I always think about how the Stephenson started balkanizing the world ideologically in Snow Crash, resulting in "protocols" of the Diamond Age. Really ahead-of-its-time thinking to realize the information age would create bonds between people stronger than their physical location.
One of my favourite lines refers to Psuedo-Intelligence not Artificial Intellogence.
“You know, when I was a lad, they called it A.I. Artificial Intelligence”
The next innovation no one is ready for…
“Nanotechnology has made nearly anything possible, and so the cultural role in deciding what SHOULD be done with it had become more important than imagining what COULD be done with it.”
Just heard about this during D&D last night. Need to read it now.
Nano-tech future from sci Fi ran into thermodynamics. Heat disapation for the work to be done is a pain to disperse when doing nano-assembler work.
On the other hand, spread it out over time, and we've had it for millions of years.
Look at an acorn. Self contained, self replicating instruction set. Just add nutrient solution raw material and energy, and it builds a huge tree, in decades.
Total vonNeumann machine.