_Out of Control: the rise of neo-biological civilization_
Kevin Kelly
ISBN 0-201-57793-3
On page 310 the author says this:
"[Ralph] Merkel told me [Kevin Kelly], 'I don't want nanotechnology to
evolve. I want to keep it in a vat, constrained by international law. The
most dangerous thing that could happen to nanotechnology is sex. Yes, I
think there should be international regulations against sex for
nanotechnology. As soon as you have sex, you have evolution, and as soon
as you have evolution, you have trouble.'"
This is probably the origin of the quip that Merkel is a "nanopuritan".
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