c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…to this conclusion. One of the sites that I point to from my website is a group of people around Eric Drexler, the nanotechnologist, who call themselves the singularists. And they say they're rationalists, they're engineers, for God's sake. And they say,…
…floor sludge that is turned into basmati rice in matter compilers. People who don't take drugs believe this is possible. People like Eric Drexler and that crowd, I mean, they see a world of nanocyte machines, machines smaller than the eye can see, made of…
…in studio. Hi you're on the air. Yes I just got finished reading a book called Nano by ed Regis speaking of the work of Eric Drexler, and I just wondered if you would comment on that a bit. Sure I'd be happy to. I don't know the book you mentioned…
…on that a bit. Sure I'd be happy to. I don't know the book you mentioned but I certainly know the work of Eric Drexler. He wrote the engines of creation and some other books and is the great proponent of nanotechnology, which, as perhaps not all…
…together and talk about new ideas. And it turned out that these salons were held at the house of one person named k Eric Drexler, and these salons were talking about a set of ideas about making machines that were so small they were literally made out…
…they were called nanotechnology, which was an idea that Marvin Minsky had begun to talk about I believe in the 1970s, and that Drexler saw and just ran with, and the idea was that the normal physical processes of the world were becoming finer and finer…