We are rarely rendered speechless by an article, and we did indeed plan on saying a few words about intelligent yoghurt until we realised that we had been beaten to the punch, and saw who leapt to its defence! And there we were thinking the newly reinvented and renamed treehugging Foresight people were trying to ditch their image of swivel eyed fanaticism by becoming the technological equivalent of Bono with a new mission of “Advancing Beneficial Nanotechnology.”
While this new direction shows some considerable ingenuity, it still begs the question over whether Foresight has abandoned the Drexlerian crede, or whether the nanobot ate their homework. After all, wasn’t molecular manufacturing going to give the world unlimited resources anyway, at least once someone had got it beyond the theoretical stage?