K. Eric Drexler - Engines of Creation (1986)

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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

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.

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