If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to … - K. Eric Drexler

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For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

K. Eric Drexler

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

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

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

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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.

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