Packy McCormick

That is, of course, the argument of every acquired CEO, that the combined entities can do so much more, so much faster, than the company could do on its own.

But to Eric Drexler, the author of Nanosystems, nanotechnology doesn't look like carbon nanotubes or killer robots but rather a super-fast 3D printer that could make many non-edible physical products atom by atom.