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From: push@mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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In article <39lf4g$9rg@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>, sean@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Sean
Matthews) wrote:

> Since you ask: No.  I didn't realise that `Engines of Creation' was
> Drexler's thesis, and while I found the book an amusing read, I certainly
> wouldn't have awarded the author a PhD on the strength of it.

Actually his thesis was 'Nanosystems : molecular machinery, manufacturing,
and computation'.  It is significantly more technical than 'Engines of
Creation'.  Perhaps it will even meet your oh so discriminating standards.

-push
