<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>I was doing some digging to understand the background of what happened from 2004-2006 between Drexler and the Foresight Nanotech Institute he co-founded. Why the split and eventual disassociation?<br>
<br>There is this 2004 Wired article from October 2004 but it is incredibly light on the why's (<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/drexler.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/drexler.html</a>)<br>
<br>Below a time line of his positions within the Institute as I managed to reconstruct it using the Way Back machine and the ExI chat archive:<br><br>until Apr 03, 2004 => Chairman: K. Eric Drexler, Ph.D.<br>Apr 04, 2004 => Founder and Chairman Emeritus: K. Eric Drexler, Ph.D.<br>
Apr 21, 2004 => <a href="http://e-drexler.com">http://e-drexler.com</a> live<br>Aug 03, 2004 => K. Eric Drexler, Chairman, Board of Advisors<br>May 26, 2005 => K. Eric Drexler, Founder and Advisor<br>Apr 21, 2006 => Nothing, "no association"<br>
<br>None of the weekly newsletters nor the quarterly updates of the FNI even mention his departure - just the appointment of a successor...<br><br>Can some of the old timers please share their insights?<br><br>Thanks,<br>
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