Wow - I'm really surprised at the polarization of the comments here. Seemingly, there are only Drexlerians with replicator futurism or old guard skeptics. This

Wow - I'm really surprised at the polarization of the comments here. Seemingly, there are only Drexlerians with replicator futurism or old guard skeptics. This truth certainly lies somewhere in between. For instance, is cloud-based synth/analytics really that far fetched / impractical? For example, have you seen the automation we're seeing with microfluidics? http://microfluidics.ee.duke.edu/ http://microfluidics.ee.duke.edu/ Are you saying that hackers can't order biological systems the way we order custom circuit boards today? The means of production are comparatively high - yet it's very cheap to make them. Techno skeptics love to say "why would". Futurists like to say "what if". The correct response is probably "how can".