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    Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for introducing molecular nanotechnology (MNT), and his studies of its potential...
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  • Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with a foreword by Marvin Minsky. An updated version was released in...
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  • The Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology was a public dispute between K. Eric Drexler, the originator of the conceptual basis of molecular...
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  • molecular nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler in Engines of Creation (1986). In Chapter 4, Engines Of Abundance, Drexler illustrates both exponential growth...
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  • gained serious attention just before that time, following its use by K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology...
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  • Hilde Drexler, Austrian judoka John Michael Drexler (1905–1970), American businessman and politician Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer K. Eric Drexler, American...
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    A molecular assembler, as defined by K. Eric Drexler, is a "proposed device able to guide chemical reactions by positioning reactive molecules with atomic...
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  • Exploratory engineering is a term coined by K. Eric Drexler to describe the process of designing and analyzing detailed hypothetical models of systems...
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    Freeman Dyson, John von Neumann, Konrad Zuse and in more recent times by K. Eric Drexler in his book on nanotechnology, Engines of Creation (coining the term...
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    1974, though it was not widely known. Inspired by Feynman's concepts, K. Eric Drexler used the term "nanotechnology" in his 1986 book Engines of Creation:...
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  • (physicist) Lee Daniel Crocker Antonei Csoka Jeff Dee Manel De Aguas K. Eric Drexler George Dvorsky Alexandra Elbakyan Warren Ellis Robert Ettinger Luc...
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    robots working together, a popularization of an early proposal by K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 discussions of MNT, but superseded in 1992. In this early...
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  • Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2014. K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation, 1986 Feynman, Richard P. (December 1959). "There's...
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  • of the anticipatory approach include Newt Gingrich, Heidi Toffler, K. Eric Drexler, and Robin Hanson. They all advocate approaches where the public, not...
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    Bibcode:2016Natur.530..282W. doi:10.1038/530282a. PMID 26887486. Swedin, Eric Gottfrid (August 10, 2005). Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia...
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  • Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard O'Neill Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler Antimatter rocket Asteroid mining Beam-powered propulsion Closed Ecological...
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  • replicate ad infinitum in a so-called gray goo scenario, first imagined by K. Eric Drexler. For the EEA the challenge posed by nano-materials are due to their...
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  • transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and tether propulsion, such as K. Eric Drexler, Robert Forward, and Hans Moravec. The L5 News was the newsletter of...
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    v t e Future of Humanity Institute People Nick Bostrom K. Eric Drexler Robin Hanson Toby Ord Anders Sandberg Rebecca Roache Concepts Differential technological...
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  • was included as the final chapter in the 1961 book, Miniaturization. K. Eric Drexler later took the Feynman concept of a billion tiny factories and added...
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    the repair of many processes thought to be responsible for aging. K. Eric Drexler, one of the founders of nanotechnology, postulated cell repair devices...
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  • Lewis Engines of Creation by nanotechnologist and space advocate K. Eric Drexler The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by space advocate Gerard...
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    Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 29, No. 2, 483–502, 2003. K. Eric Drexler and Christine Peterson, Nanotechnology and Enabling Technologies, Foresight...
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    The Foresight Institute was founded in 1986 by Christine Peterson, K. Eric Drexler, and James C. Bennett to support the development of nanotechnology...
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    v t e Future of Humanity Institute People Nick Bostrom K. Eric Drexler Robin Hanson Toby Ord Anders Sandberg Rebecca Roache Concepts Differential technological...
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  • at the Bottom", a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman in 1959. K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation introduced the general public to the...
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    Bateson, Oliver Morton, Stephen Schneider, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, K. Eric Drexler, and others) (2011) Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies,...
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    Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. K. Eric Drexler sees self-replication as a key step in nano and universal assembly...
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  • excellent material for many machines. It has been suggested, notably by K. Eric Drexler, that mechanosynthesis will be fundamental to molecular manufacturing...
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  • Synthetic molecular motor "Nanosystems by K. Eric Drexler". Retrieved 2009-11-29. "Nanosystems by K. Eric Drexler". Archived from the original on 2017-08-18...
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