X-Message-Number: 1933
From:  (Nick Szabo)
Subject: CRYONICS: $8 billion nanotech fan
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 00:55:20 -0800 (PST)


I can confirm that Bill Gates is a fan of K. Eric Drexler's
_Engines of Creation_.  On a tour of Microsoft in 1987, a
few of us (University of Washington computer science students)
got to talk with Gates at Microsoft for about twenty minutes during
a recruiting tour.  He have us a rapid spiel on his "vision for the 
future".  I wish I could remember exactly what he said, but a big 
part of the talk was waving around Drexler's book, asking us if we'd 
read it, and declaring that nanotechnology would be a big deal in
our careers.

Nick Szabo					

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