"My work at MIT had focused on what……" — 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. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."
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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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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be,…
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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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