Glad to have been a part of this in some way (I handle all the API's). Now all we need is for Apple to approve the app for their store.
Update: It's been approved now so you can download it for free from the store. Toby has the full scoop.
I’ve been thinking: let’s rate our technologies for how much they help us as primates, rather than how they can put us further into this dream of being powerful gods who stalk around on a planet that doesn’t really matter to us.
- Kim Stanley Robinson, from an interview on bldgblg, Comparative Planetology
Grey goo is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy).
- Wikipedia, on Grey Goo
I remember reading Eric Drexler's Engines Of Creation (1986) a few years ago and being delighted by it. Sure it's dated (the irony) and amidst the science and 'foresight' you'll find some rhetoric, but what a great read. Worth it for the cover alone.
