But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

in 1979 in Astro/Aerospace Engineering with a Master's thesis titled "Design of a High Performance Solar Sail System. '" Drexler had difficulty in getting Smalley to respond but in December 2003 Chemical and Engineering news carried a 4 part debate.

His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and publiK. Eric Drexlerd as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992) which received the Association of American PubliK. Eric Drexlerrs award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992.