Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

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.