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K. Eric Drexler has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That…
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design…
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into…
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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…
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of…
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that…
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they…
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times…
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that…
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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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Art is a self-replicating force.
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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…
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One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its…
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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.
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Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence…
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Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow…
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We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that…
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ATHEISM... The Belief That There Was Nothing And Nothing Happened To Nothing, And Nothing Magically Exploded For No Reason, Creating Everything And…
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