Saturday, 1 June 2013

Thursday - Radical Abundance with Eric Drexler

Yesterday evening I went to a presentation by Eric Drexler, hosted by The London Futurists.


About twenty years ago, I read the first book by Drexler, called "The Engines of Creation", setting the scene for nanotechnology. A lot has happened in the years since then, and I was looking forward to what he had to say.

Unfortunately, he was a little ill-prepared for the presentation and seemed to hedge around the subject, preferring to read from the book he's just written. Fortunately, when the Q&A session came around he was asked specific questions and was a little more forthcoming. Even so, it was disappointing.

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