The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them. - K. Eric Drexler
Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.
- 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 at computer s… - 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 at computer s…
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools. - K. Eric Drexler
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts o… - 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 these sorts o…
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 muc… - 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 muc…
Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that al… - K. Eric Drexler
Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that al…
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to b… - K. Eric Drexler
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to b…
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough o… - 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 o…
Nature draws no line between living and nonliving. - K. Eric Drexler
Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.
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