Copies Quote by K. Eric Drexler

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

“The Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society maintains a registry that includes (at the moment) descriptions of 67,883,986 “commercially available chemicals” (many…

— K. Eric Drexler

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms…

— K. Eric Drexler

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

— K. Eric Drexler

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect,…

— K. Eric Drexler

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit.…

— K. Eric Drexler

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works…

— K. Eric Drexler

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

— K. Eric Drexler

“Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a…

— K. Eric Drexler

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body,…

— K. Eric Drexler

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build…

— K. Eric Drexler

“Tsiolkovsky had no need for a lathe or a drill because he produced his results using the traditional tools of design engineering: pen and…

— K. Eric Drexler