"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."
― K. Eric Drexler
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Technology
More From K. Eric Drexler
- "Any powerful technology can be abused."
- "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."
- "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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