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...Still, computer chips the size of bacteria and motors as small as molecules of myosin are rapidly moving out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of possibility. "For years, scientists have been taking atoms and molecules apart in order to understand them," says futurist K. Eric Drexler, president of the Foresight Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. "Now it's time to start figuring out how to put them together to make useful things." With such powerful instruments to help them, scientists and engineers may finally be getting ready to do just that...
...predict that the think-tank foundations and wealthy conservative alumni upon seeing this will remove funding," Drexler said of the organizations that support the Review...
...Drexler said there was "almost unanimous sentiment" among Dartmouth students against the Review and the "immoral ad-hominem attack, designed to incite violent feeling"that the quote represented...
...Dartmouth Review has a history oflaying low and then launching a sensationalattack," Drexler said...
...Drexler said the Review was trying tofind a scapegoat for the incident. "I hope it'snot the case that an editor placed the quote, butthe institution is responsible...