«Foresight Guidelines for Responsible Nanotechnology Development» [Архівовано 6 червня 2019 у Wayback Machine.]
«Autonomous self-replicating assemblers are not necessary to achieve significant manufacturing capabilities.»
«The simplest, most efficient, and safest approach to productive nanosystems is to make specialized nanoscale tools and put them together in factories big enough to make what is needed. … The machines in this would work like the conveyor belts and assembly robots in a factory, doing similar jobs. If you pulled one of these machines out of the system, it would pose no risk, and be as inert as a light bulb pulled from its socket.»
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Zyvex: «Self replication and nanotechnology» [Архівовано 25 серпня 2019 у Wayback Machine.]
«artificial self replicating systems will only function in carefully controlled artificial environments
…
While self replicating systems are the key to low cost, there is no need (and little desire) to have such systems function in the outside world. Instead, in an artificial and controlled environment they can manufacture simpler and more rugged systems that can then be transferred to their final destination. … The resulting medical device will be simpler, smaller, more efficient and more precisely designed for the task at hand than a device designed to perform the same function and self replicate. … A single device able to do [both] would be harder to design and less efficient.»
«Foresight Guidelines for Responsible Nanotechnology Development» [Архівовано 6 червня 2019 у Wayback Machine.]
«Autonomous self-replicating assemblers are not necessary to achieve significant manufacturing capabilities.»
«The simplest, most efficient, and safest approach to productive nanosystems is to make specialized nanoscale tools and put them together in factories big enough to make what is needed. … The machines in this would work like the conveyor belts and assembly robots in a factory, doing similar jobs. If you pulled one of these machines out of the system, it would pose no risk, and be as inert as a light bulb pulled from its socket.»
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Zyvex: «Self replication and nanotechnology» [Архівовано 25 серпня 2019 у Wayback Machine.]
«artificial self replicating systems will only function in carefully controlled artificial environments
…
While self replicating systems are the key to low cost, there is no need (and little desire) to have such systems function in the outside world. Instead, in an artificial and controlled environment they can manufacture simpler and more rugged systems that can then be transferred to their final destination. … The resulting medical device will be simpler, smaller, more efficient and more precisely designed for the task at hand than a device designed to perform the same function and self replicate. … A single device able to do [both] would be harder to design and less efficient.»
