The really big difference i... by K. Eric Drexler, an American Scientist

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“The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.”

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K. Eric Drexler

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Name: K. Eric Drexler

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 25, 1955

Profession: Scientist

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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 unstable arms race.

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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 things simpler.

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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, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

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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 engineering, and so forth.

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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.

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