Nanotech conference disrupted, Leeds
Nanny Tech | 12.11.2004 14:19 | Ecology | Repression | Technology
Royal Armouries Nanotechnology Conference disrupted
At lunchtime today (12th November), a meeting of companies involved in nanotechnology industries was invaded and disrupted by a group of people opposed to technologies of social control. Protestors at the Royal Armouries distributed fliers and explained their presence and actions over the tannoy system.
Nanotechnology is the newest weapon against diversity, rebellion, difference, autonomy and freedom. The US military is, of course, the biggest investor as it tries to ensure total domination of all life on the planet. The British government has also invested £90 million in nanotechnology and most industries and universities* are developing interests in the field.
Genetic engineering was recognised as having massive social and ecological implications and this ensured worldwide resistance against it. Nanotechnology, which has the ability to transform all matter, has far more dramatic effects and needs drastic action to confront this new assault on diversity of life.
Nanotech, and its links to biotechnological, informational and cognitive sciences, provides the state with yet more tools with which to control all dissent and iron out all life into a homogeneous, manipulable mass. Be it advances in surveillance technologies, the ability to disable neural transmitters and break apart DNA strands by remote control, artificially create ‘workaholism’ in labourers, or ‘stamp out’ physical and mental difference, nanotechnology puts mind control, body control, social control and control of the natural world more firmly in the hands of the state, the corporations and the ruling elite.
Just as biotechnology was sold to us as a green technology that would feed the world, so nanotech is being heralded. Both instinct and reason tell us to take action against these new technologies before we lose our last liberties to them.
* These are easy targets
At lunchtime today (12th November), a meeting of companies involved in nanotechnology industries was invaded and disrupted by a group of people opposed to technologies of social control. Protestors at the Royal Armouries distributed fliers and explained their presence and actions over the tannoy system.
Nanotechnology is the newest weapon against diversity, rebellion, difference, autonomy and freedom. The US military is, of course, the biggest investor as it tries to ensure total domination of all life on the planet. The British government has also invested £90 million in nanotechnology and most industries and universities* are developing interests in the field.
Genetic engineering was recognised as having massive social and ecological implications and this ensured worldwide resistance against it. Nanotechnology, which has the ability to transform all matter, has far more dramatic effects and needs drastic action to confront this new assault on diversity of life.
Nanotech, and its links to biotechnological, informational and cognitive sciences, provides the state with yet more tools with which to control all dissent and iron out all life into a homogeneous, manipulable mass. Be it advances in surveillance technologies, the ability to disable neural transmitters and break apart DNA strands by remote control, artificially create ‘workaholism’ in labourers, or ‘stamp out’ physical and mental difference, nanotechnology puts mind control, body control, social control and control of the natural world more firmly in the hands of the state, the corporations and the ruling elite.
Just as biotechnology was sold to us as a green technology that would feed the world, so nanotech is being heralded. Both instinct and reason tell us to take action against these new technologies before we lose our last liberties to them.
* These are easy targets
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technology
12.11.2004 21:54
"Yeah?"
"He's making a wheel!"
"So?"
"Mark my words. Instruments of social repression, that's what them wheels will become!"
luddite
DEAR LUDDITE
13.11.2004 19:34
would you say that chemical and biological weapons are a good idea?
nanotech is being developed for surveillance and military apps (ie killing and disabling things)
hmmm - what's that dude doing over there?
oh nothing, just inventing an atomic weapon, but don't worry, it won't be used, and anyway we may get some neat spin offs like producing electicity from it.
hmmm - mark my words....
thats an example - now go do some reaearch and come back and tell me if you think this area should be at all regulated...
phorward the future
who said anything
13.11.2004 21:31
"Nanotechnology is the newest weapon against diversity, rebellion, difference, autonomy and freedom" ... er?
"Nanotechnology, which has the ability to transform all matter". Er, no.
"Be it advances in surveillance technologies, the ability to disable neural transmitters and break apart DNA strands by remote control, artificially create ‘workaholism’ in labourers, or ‘stamp out’ physical and mental difference, nanotechnology puts mind control, body control, social control and control of the natural world more firmly in the hands of the state, the corporations and the ruling elite. "
I don't know quite where to start on this. Disable neural transmitters? No. Break apart DNA strands by remote control?? No. workaholism .... yawn. zzz.
This is utter rubbish, no less.
luddite