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Academic discussion that's pretty much awesome..

‘all life in every jot of its riotus variety is created by little biological machines like those in photosynthesis that manipulate basic elements of matter. Why not adapt those methods to build nonliving things?...to build anything you pleased? ..With nanotechnology, you could grow a house, or a car, or a completely real, molecularly accurate T-bone steak, or a new heart, from little more than software instructions and some handfuls of dust. It would enable digital control of the very structure of matter’ – Joel Garreau, based on Eric Drexlers ideas, Radical Evolution, p. 120