Connecting the Digital and the Ecological Transitions

Par Eric Drexler, l'un des pionniers et "gourous" américains des nanotechnologies, et Dennis Pamlin, consultant passé par le WWF, un plaidoyer en faveur d'un développement volontariste des nanotechnologies pour répondre aux défis planétaires, qui passe largement sous silence les nombreuses objections que ces propositions soulèvent en général (octobre 2013).

"The world faces unprecedented global challenges related to depleting natural resources, pollution, climate change, clean water, and poverty. These problems are directly linked to the physical characteristics of our current technology base for producing energy and material products. Deep and pervasive changes in this technology base can address these global problems at their most fundamental, physical level, by changing both the products and the means of production used by 21st century civilization. The key development is advanced, atomically precise manufacturing (APM). This report examines the potential for nanotechnology to enable deeply transformative production technologies that can be developed through a series of advances that build on current nanotechnology research."