Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. Eric Drexler
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- 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.
- 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.
- You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
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- 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.