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http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.brian.l.wang http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.brian.l.wang The Author is an MBA from Canadian universities! What authority the author h

• hga 16y ago
  Given that the topic is legislative machinations about (research) funding and the diversion of such funding, it would seem to be well within his formal education on the subjects. If you look at his list of publications you'll see they probably assume the science and technology (and he does have a CS undergraduate degree) and focus on appropriate stuff beyond that. And all that said, you don't have to be too familiar with the science and engineering that Drexler has proposed to know when someone is misrepresenting it as grossly as Locklin. Just like anyone with a basic understanding of chemistry and Drexler's writings could tell that Smalley's "fat fingers" (emphasis on plural) was a strawman, since at that time Drexler had never proposed multiple "fingers" for just the reason Smally pointed out (not enough room for them to fit; qualification because I don't know anything about the current DNA approaches that are exciting a lot of people).