Quotes by K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

…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.

Block

Military

Technology

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.

Atoms

Machines

Patterns

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.

Race

Running

Technology

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.

Forks

Moving

Tuning

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Powerful

Technology

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.

Believe

People

Thinking

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.

Design

Learning

Machines

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.

People

Real

Thinking

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.

Effort

Self

World

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

Artificial Intelligence

Helping

Tools

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Atoms

Believe

Block

Cells

Design

Doe

Draws

Dust

Effort

Engineering

Engineers

Forks

Helping

Important

Intelligent

Issues

Law

Learning

Lines

Long

Machines

Made

Medicine

Military

Mit

Molecules

Moving

Orbit

Patterns

People

Powerful

Race

Rationality

Real

Running

Scientist

Self

Space

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Study

Stupid

Technology

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Thinking

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Quotes by K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

…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.

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.

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.

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.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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