[extropy-chat] Did Smalley change his mind?

[Brett Paatsch]

In Nanomedicine Vol 1, Chapter 2, Paths to Molecular Manufacturing
(published 1999) Sect. 2.1   Is Molecular Manufacturing possible?
http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/2.1.htm   Robert Freitas writes -

" Nearly 40 years after Feynman's famous "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
speech, and a decade after Drexler's original proposal for a bottom-up 
approach to machine building using molecular assemblers, Nobel chemist
Richard Smalley also largely agreed that this objective should prove
feasible. 

Noted Smalley:  [2389]  "On a length scale of more than one
nanometer, the mechanical robot assembler metaphor envisioned by 
Drexler almost certainly will work..."

There is a citation (below) but the link no longer finds a page.

[2389]. R.E. Smalley, "Chemistry on the Nanometer Scale -- 
Introductory Remarks," 1996 Welch Conference in Chemistry,
at: http://cnst.rice.edu/NanoWelch.html


Did Smalley change his mind about Molecular Manufacturing being
possible ?   When was the above page removed? 

Does anyone have an  e-copy of the original remarks?  It would be
*very* interesting to see what Smalley actually said. 

Regards,
Brett Paatsch