Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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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