An interview with Eric Drexler on the Future of Nanotechnology
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 7 Δεκ 2014
Eric
Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for
popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the
1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular
Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the
Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book
of 1992.
“Some seminal works stand out like beacons in the
history of science. Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica and Watson and Crick’s A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic
Acid come quickly to mind. In recent decades we can add Eric Drexler’s
Engines of Creation, which established the revolutionary new field of
nanotechnology. In the twenty years since this seminal work was
published, its premises and analyses have been confirmed and we are
starting to apply precise molecular assembly to a wide variety of early
applications from blood cell sized devices that can target cancer cells
to a new generation of efficient solar panels. We can now see clearly
the roadmap over the next couple of decades to the full realization of
Drexler’s concept of the inexpensive assembly of macroobjects
constructed at the nanoscale controlled by massively parallel
information processes, the fulfillment of which will enable us to solve
problems — energy, environmental degradation, poverty, and disease to
name a few — that have plagued humankind for eons.”
— Ray Kurzweil
Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for
popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the
1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular
Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the
Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book
of 1992.
“Some seminal works stand out like beacons in the
history of science. Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica and Watson and Crick’s A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic
Acid come quickly to mind. In recent decades we can add Eric Drexler’s
Engines of Creation, which established the revolutionary new field of
nanotechnology. In the twenty years since this seminal work was
published, its premises and analyses have been confirmed and we are
starting to apply precise molecular assembly to a wide variety of early
applications from blood cell sized devices that can target cancer cells
to a new generation of efficient solar panels. We can now see clearly
the roadmap over the next couple of decades to the full realization of
Drexler’s concept of the inexpensive assembly of macroobjects
constructed at the nanoscale controlled by massively parallel
information processes, the fulfillment of which will enable us to solve
problems — energy, environmental degradation, poverty, and disease to
name a few — that have plagued humankind for eons.”
— Ray Kurzweil
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