User:Antony-22
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I'm a chemist with a research interest in emerging technologies, including nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and AI safety. I've been editing Wikipedia since late 2006, and was reading it for about two years before that.
My work on Wikipedia includes emerging technologies and related science topics; science policy and other policy topics; and local landmarks, especially bridges. My time is split between creating and expanding new articles, copyediting existing articles for flow and clarity of organization, and performing splits of long articles and merges of articles that have overlapping subject matter. I was a Wikipedian-in-Residence for the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from January 2017 to February 2025, and my edits for that position were made under a separate account.
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  The Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology was a public dispute between K. Eric Drexler, the originator of the conceptual basis of molecular nanotechnology, and Richard Smalley, a recipient of the 1996 Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene. The dispute was about the feasibility of constructing molecular assemblers that could robotically assemble molecular materials and devices by manipulating individual molecules. The two also traded accusations that the other's conception of nanotechnology was harmful to public perception of the field and threatened continued public support for nanotechnology research. The debate was carried out from 2001 to 2003 through a series of published articles and open letters. It is often cited in the history of nanotechnology due to the fame of its participants and its commentary on both the technical and social aspects of nanotechnology. It has also been widely criticized for its adversarial tone, causing commentators to go so far as to characterize the tone of the debate as similar to "a pissing match" and "reminiscent of [a] Saturday Night Live sketch". (more...) Selection from my FA and GA credits. Refresh. |
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