Talk:K. Eric Drexler

message: Sorry, I fail to understand what specific professional disagreement, detailed as it my be, is doing on a personal biography wikipedia value. It looks woefully out of place. Scientifically speaking the arguments made there are near to complete rubbish. But even so those arguments are not relevant and eggriogiously over detailed to a biography page. 
My main qualm with the controversy section is the sheer length of it and the level of irrelevant specifics. Both make it out to look like there's some actual controversy on the person in question (Eric K. Drexler). When in fact it's just one person with too much free time bickering about his ideas. Just my 0.02$ as a wikipedia reader.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.56.60 (talk) 05:43, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Having reread the entire section again, I see absolutely nothing in it, after the first paragraph, that has anything to do with Drexler. The simple way to solve this problem is to trim the whole thing down to the brief description, as in the first graf, then link to the separate page. Another solution would be to move the entire section to the nanotechnology page. Yes, mentioning that Drexler-Smalley exchanged had triggered a major internal debate within the field is important, but that's where its relevance to Drexler ends. Alex.deWitte (talk) 04:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy? 

message: I propose adding the following sentence to the end of the Controversy section:
'In 2008 UK government funding of 1.5 million pounds over six years was provided for research working towards mechanized mechanosynthesis. The project leader is Professor Moriarty of the University of Nottingham in partnership with the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, amongst others.' See http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G007837/1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Star A Star (talk • contribs) 08:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Mechanosynthesis grant

message: Although much of the field credits Drexler's book (1986) as the initial impetus, Drexler had founded the MIT Nanotechnology Group about two years earlier. There is almost no information about the group on-line. The group has no web page that I could find, although many of its original members (excluding then-students) may still be at MIT. In the early years, Drexler was a rather charismatic visionary, but his relevance faded as the field had become more accepted. Alex.deWitte (talk) 04:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nanotechnology at MIT 

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