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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.

K. Eric Drexler

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

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Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

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People who confuse science with technology tend to become confused about limits... they imagine that new knowledge always means new know-how; some even imagine that knowing everything would let us do anything.

K. Eric Drexler

Because of our superficial self-awareness, we often wonder where an idea in our heads came from. Some people imagine that these thoughts and feelings come directly from agencies outside their own minds; they incline towards a belief in haunted heads.

K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler

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Born: April 25, 1955 (age 70)

Bio: Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology, from the 1970s and 1980s.

Known for:

Engines of Creation (1986)
Nanosystems (1992)

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