In July 1992, mere days before he was announced as a vice presidential candidate, Al Gore held hearings on “New Technologies for a Sustainable World”, which included the testimony of “father of nanotechnology” Eric Drexler. Parts of this excerpt were included in Ed Regis’ book Nano,

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On June 26, 1992, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space held a hearing on the topic of "New Technologies for a Sustainable World." Dr. Eric Drexler, Chairman of the Foresight Institute and Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, was invited to testify on molecular nanotechnology. The following is the written testimony he submitted; a later issue will cover the oral portion.

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