Nanotechnology: Bringing Digital Control to Matter" Eric Drexler's talk at ETCON

Cory Doctorow 11:53 am Fri Apr 25, 2003

Here are notes from "Nanotechnology: Bringing Digital Control to Matter" Eric Drexler's talk at ETCON:

The major data-storage system on your computer is the bacteria that colonizes it
— 1MB/bacterium. The major US source of electronic goods are the corn-fields of
Iowa.

If something exists, we can make more stuff like that.

Processes on this scale are cheap, low-powered, clean and powerful. We won't use
biology, but the principles that biology demonstrates. Aircraft are like birds,
but they don't have feathers.

Chemistry shows the range of things that can be made. We have more materials at
our disposal than occur in nature: the full range of possible structures that
can be made from atoms.

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