"Any powerful technology can be abused." — K. Eric Drexler

"Any powerful technology can be abused."

— K. Eric Drexler

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22 Quotes by K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand

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