Eric Drexler was strongly influenced by ideas on limits to growth in the early 1970s.
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14 Facts About Eric Drexler
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Eric Drexler found Gerard K O'Neill of Princeton University, a physicist famous for his work on storage rings for particle accelerators and his landmark work on the concepts of space colonization.
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Eric Drexler fabricated metal films a few tens of nanometers thick on a wax support to demonstrate the potentials of high-performance solar sails.
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Eric Drexler was active in space politics, helping the L5 Society defeat the Moon Treaty in 1980.
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Term "nano-technology" had been coined by the Tokyo University of Science professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 to describe the precision manufacture of materials with nanometer tolerances, and Eric Drexler unknowingly used a related term in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology to describe what later became known as molecular nanotechnology.
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Eric Drexler first published the term "grey goo" to describe what might happen if a hypothetical self-replicating molecular nanotechnology went out of control.
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Eric Drexler has subsequently tried to clarify his concerns about out-of-control self-replicators, and make the case that molecular manufacturing does not require such devices.
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Eric Drexler is currently a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute where his focus is on superintelligence.
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In 2006, Eric Drexler married Rosa Wang, a former investment banker who works with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public on improving the social capital markets.
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Eric Drexler has arranged to be cryonically preserved in the event of legal death.
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Eric Drexler later argued that nanomachines would have to resemble chemical enzymes more than Drexler's assemblers and could only work in water.
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Eric Drexler is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel The Diamond Age as one of the heroes of a future world where nanotechnology is ubiquitous.
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Eric Drexler is mentioned in the science fiction book Decipher by Stel Pavlou; his book is mentioned as one of the starting points of nanomachine construction, as well as giving a better understanding of the way carbon 60 was to be applied.
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Eric Drexler is mentioned in Michael Crichton's 2002 novel Prey in the introduction.
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