Comments on: How To Save The Planet And Get Rich http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/05/how-to-save-the-planet-and-get-rich/ Taking The Rational View of Nanotechnologies Since 2000 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/05/how-to-save-the-planet-and-get-rich/#comment-2790 Tim Tue, 12 May 2009 08:16:52 +0000 http://cientifica.eu/blog/?p=1143#comment-2790 Agreed. I think my point was twofold. Firstly that science is all about dealing with things we don't fully understand- otherwise we wouldn't need science. A more serious issue is the blithe dismissal of technology by people who also cannot live without it. The irony of someone tweeting about how we should live more simply is always a source of wonder and amusement to me Agreed. I think my point was twofold.

Firstly that science is all about dealing with things we don’t fully understand- otherwise we wouldn’t need science. A more serious issue is the blithe dismissal of technology by people who also cannot live without it. The irony of someone tweeting about how we should live more simply is always a source of wonder and amusement to me

]]> By: Ruth Seeley http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/05/how-to-save-the-planet-and-get-rich/#comment-2787 Ruth Seeley Mon, 11 May 2009 21:48:17 +0000 http://cientifica.eu/blog/?p=1143#comment-2787 If one doesn't maintain a certain healthy skepticism regarding engineers' proposals in general one is abdicating one's claim to intelligence, I believe. I have never encountered another group of professionals with the audacity to modify mechanical construction blueprints without either getting clearance or recording the modifications they were making, something I'm sure shouldn't be legal if it actually is. And yes, I know your background is in engineering. I prefer to think you're one of the few enlightened ones though. :) But your point re computers and medical research is well taken. It sort of applies to driving as well, no? Although I confess the only 'modifications' I make to my car are adding things like gas, oil, and all those other mysterious fluids it seems to require. You know, windshield wiper fluid and the like. ;) If one doesn’t maintain a certain healthy skepticism regarding engineers’ proposals in general one is abdicating one’s claim to intelligence, I believe. I have never encountered another group of professionals with the audacity to modify mechanical construction blueprints without either getting clearance or recording the modifications they were making, something I’m sure shouldn’t be legal if it actually is. And yes, I know your background is in engineering. I prefer to think you’re one of the few enlightened ones though. :) But your point re computers and medical research is well taken. It sort of applies to driving as well, no? Although I confess the only ‘modifications’ I make to my car are adding things like gas, oil, and all those other mysterious fluids it seems to require. You know, windshield wiper fluid and the like. ;)

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