This seems to have been the usual sort of governance wonks, who don't
realize that to make concrete governance decisions you need to know a lot
about the technology and how it plays out. Until we do, there's little point
to such pontificating. Much like Asilomar.
Gregory Benford
On Mon, Apr 4,
Yes, but it's hard to see how many of the technologies we talk about
can be developed, and their consequences understood, in the absence of
a regulatory framework. I don't see how a system such as
stratospheric aerosols could be developed, tested, and refined without
a facilitative policy
