The year was 1955 when Kim. Eric. Drexler was born in Oakland Hospital, California. In 1973 the obsession of believing that human settlement was possible in space drove him to Nanotechnology when he arrived at MIT as an undergraduate. Four years later he received his S.B., in Interdisciplinary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then in 1979 he received his S.M. in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That same year Drexler developed the idea that cells would make a molecular computer that would make molecular machines, not knowing that Feynman spoke at a meeting and explained how molecular computers would create molecular machines.

Two years later he successfully received his Ph.D. in Molecular Nanotechnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Knowing that other scientist shared that same beliefs as he did, he started to publish his ideas, thus in 1981 “Molecular Engines” was published. He then moved to California four years after publishing “Molecular Engines”, in which he published "Engines of Creation” and founded the M.I.T. Nanotechnology Study Group and is chairman of the Foresight Institute, an institute that helps students with the understanding of Nanotechnology. (Frietas)