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And that sounds like what the author of the OP said here: "I’m willing to bet, at some nebulous point in the future, long after Drexler and I are dead, someone
by imp 16y ago
And that sounds like what the author of the OP said here:
"I’m willing to bet, at some nebulous point in the future, long after Drexler and I are dead, someone may eventually develop a technology sort of vaguely like what he imagines."
It's been a while since I read Drexler's books, but if I remember correctly he alluded to more mechanical processes than biological ones. The article you linked to is purely biology and not really what Drexler was arguing for.
- jacquesm 16y agoNo, it's not purely biology. It is using biological elements to synthesize artificial constructs with exact mechanical dimensions. By analogy, when a carpenter takes a tree and cuts the tree into boards that's engineering, not biology even if the raw materials were provided by biology. And when you then use those boards to build a house, that's engineering too.