Re: You all need to make a hollywood blockbuster about the singularity and get all these national-security soccor moms screaming hellfire about regulating nanotechnology.

If you relinquish powerful and important technologies, what happens is that someone else invents them and sends your economy up the tubes. Probably best to let the eco-people blather on about global warming instead. They seem quite happy doing that - and at least there they can't do much damage.