K. Eric Drexler Quotes


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.


Citations

Brown, David Jay, and Rebecca McClen Novick. "K. Eric Drexler: Nanotechnology and the Assembler Breakthrough." Voices from the Edge: Conversations with Thinkers of the 21st Century. Crossing Press, 1995.

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K. Eric Drexler
K. Eric Drexler
  • Born: April 25, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for seminal studies of 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.