Chris Phoenix is a co-moderator of the sci.nanotech newsgroup. He has been a regular attendee of Foresight Institute conferences and gatherings for many years. He has studied nanotechnology with K. Eric Drexler, when Drexler gave a course on the subject at Stanford University.
... power, from the Greek language turannos. In Classical Antiquity[?] it did not always have inherently negative implications, it merely designated anyone who assumed power ...