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21 quotes by K. Eric Drexler

Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992.
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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... →

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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 lot of skepticism, but it seems... →

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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... →

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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body... →

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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... →

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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... →

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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic... →

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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an... →

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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 process. That immediately makes... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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