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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in…

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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough…
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That…
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design…
Any powerful technology can be abused.
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into…
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like…
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of…
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that…
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they…
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times…
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that…
But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every…

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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Unknown Author
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For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing… — Richard K. Morgan
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like… — K. Eric Drexler
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and… — Terence McKenna
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its… — Ralph Merkle
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. — Bernard M. Oliver

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