K. Eric Drexler Quotes

• 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 be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Real, Pensamiento, Gente

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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 reach the assembler breakthrough.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Pensar, Comprender, Importante

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Tools, Helping, Artificial Intelligence

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of Creation”, Anchor Books

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• 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 speeds.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Doe, Machines, Steps

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• Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Study, Scientist, Engineers

  K. Eric Drexler (2013). “Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization”, p.28, PublicAffairs

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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 foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Real, Cells, Dust

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Atoms, Machines, Patterns

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• 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 of things.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Learning, Design, Machines

  Foresight Institute interview, www.foresight.org.

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• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Technology, Engineering, Issues

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• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Running, Technology, Race

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Hoy tenemos instrumentos grandes y toscos guiados por cirujanos inteligentes, y tenemos moléculas pequeñas y estúpidas de medicamentos que se vierten en el cuerpo, se difunden por ahí e interfieren en las cosas lo mejor que pueden. En la actualidad, la medicina es incapaz de curar nada.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Stupid, Intelligent, Medicine

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• Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Lines, Draws, Rationality

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of Creation”, Anchor Books

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• ...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Block, Military, Technology

  K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books

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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 million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Moving, Tuning, Forks

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• 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.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Tools, Use, Way

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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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, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Law, Long, Term Limits

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Powerful, Technology

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• Las piezas básicas, las moléculas de partida, pueden suministrarse en abundancia y no es necesario fabricarlas mediante un elaborado proceso. Eso simplifica inmediatamente las cosas.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Molecules, Abundance, Made

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• 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.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Space, Orbit, Mit

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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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 there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

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• 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.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Self, Effort, World

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