/sci/ - Science & Math

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>THEN, somewhere around the mid 1990s came DRAGONSPEAK (and a host of others) that did claim to do pretty decent, but “user trained” transcription. Many a Law Firm, and writer invested in these things. They were almost always “quietly retired” after only a few hours, or few months of elapsed use. The transcription accuracy was fnarking frustrating, even when highly trained. Very depressing.

>NOW, as of “now”, I can talk to my Android phone when doing text messages, and have the utterances whisked off in real time to the Google Cloud, pounded on by a big old bag of processors somewhere, statistically filtered, binned, bagged, extracted and gonkulated, and a few milliseconds later comes the return packet with a surprisingly good transcription for most of what I'm blithering about. Without training, or even contextual hints. I'm amused! Pleased! in Awe!

any niggers wanna help me out?

So, suppose this:

Eric Drexler turns out to be right, just as expected, on th eright time of his predictions (Since he explained them to both the idealists and the ultraconservatices, etc., so get to a "mean" point where the predictions are not optimistic or pessimistic, but realistic).

Because of that, nanotech goes the way of the computer: It goes from "a global market for five computers" to millions of desktop-sized assemblers that can assemble anything provided with the proper blueprints and the materials, said materials being, mostly, Carbon and Hydrogen, and maybe something else, but mostly Carbon.

Money loses most of it's worth, and corporations have to adapt to the rapid change by moving from manufacturing to resource extracion, since resources and blueprints are the only thing that's worth something, and then others try new ways of getting rich: They transform macroscopic blue prints for everything from a typewriter to a car into nanoassembler-executable code, and sell it at any price they want. But the Internet allows free exchange of these, so people start making open-source groups of people writing nanobot-executable code, and everyone who lives in the industrialized world can make anything from a pen to a jet fighter.

Economy changes rapidly, some companies collapse, others rise, "herp derp power to the people", gov'ment and corporations try to control nanotech like they did with the Internet and fail.

Say, /sci/, is this a semi-plausible scenario?

ITT: Nanodreams.

Moar Apollo.

Hello /sci/ lets vote on whats the best spacecraft made up until this point.
1.Apollo CSM
2.Lunar lander
3.Saturn 5
4.Space shuttle
5.MIR
6.ISS
7.Skylab
8.Saluyt 7
9.mercury capsule
10.Vostok

I vote apollo CSM because in my opinion its the only true spaceship man has yet created.
ill tally the votes every 10 posts
also feel free to add any if I forgot any