[Kosh]

This time, it's personal:

MEXICO CITY -- An anti-technology group calling itself "Individuals Tending to Savagery" was responsible for a package bomb that injured two university professors just outside Mexico City, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The explosion at the Monterrey Technological Institute's campus in the State of Mexico on the outskirts of the capital Monday injured two professors, one of whom was involved in robotics research. Neither suffered life-threatening injuries.

Mexico State Attorney General Alfredo Castillo said at a news conference that the group's involvement was identified from a partially destroyed note found at the scene.

Castillo said the group opposes experiments with nanotechnology and has staged attacks on academics before.

"The ITS is a movement that, in accordance with its ideals, opposes any development of neo- or nanotechnology anywhere in the world, and they are linked to attacks in several different countries of Europe, including Spain and France," Castillo said.

He confirmed that the package had been disguised with labels from a well-known express package service, but did not say which one.

A manifesto signed by the group and posted on a radical website said: "We have no remorse, our aim was precisely for the guards to deliver the package to the intended professor," who it identified as Oscar Camacho.

A web page operated by Mexico's National Polytechnical Institute listed Camacho's research as including "micro-electro-mechanical systems." His academic background includes computer and electronic engineering.

The ITS statement said Camacho's "police impluses" to inspect the package triggered the detonator, adding that "there is no doubt that curiosity killed the human."

The statement said nanotechnology and other technologies damage nature and native species and contribute to natural disasters.

As nanotech continues its development, becoming more powerful and widespread I wonder if we will see a more generalized form of the neo-primitivist na'avi wannabe nonsense that has been hounding the GMO food industry in the coming decades.

For those of you who don't get the UNABomber reference, he was this guy. A brilliant mathematician who went off his rocker and went out to live in a shack in the forest without electricity or running water while periodically mailing universities and airlines mail bombs (hence his nickname).   

[Luis Dias]

Luddites are inevitable. And so is technological progress. They could have a philosophical point, but if they had neurons, they would see that all their actions are utterly futile. The future is inevitable. We will live with nanotech more and more and more.

[Ghostavo]

Academia seems to be getting more and more dangerous each day...

[Luis Dias]

The H bomb was invented 59 years ago. Get over it.

[Bobboau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0

we already are in the future, it's too late for this ****, nature lost the war.

[Pred the Penguin]

Tell that to the next natural disaster that comes your way.
That vid was pretty creepy though . o_o

[Bobboau]

yeah especially the GPS and the tablet with wireless internet, the really creepy part is a lot of those things look bulky and primitive compared to what we have today.