"It's a lot easier to see, at least……" — K. Eric Drexler
"It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits."
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K. Eric Drexler
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22 Quotes by K. Eric Drexler
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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…
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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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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning…
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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…
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more…
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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…
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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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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a…
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of…
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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…
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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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