"If you take all the factories in the……" — K. Eric Drexler
"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 a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have."
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K. Eric Drexler
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22 Quotes by K. Eric Drexler
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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…
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any…
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