The "nano-pants" group will be upstaged and replaced by more radical nanotech developers as time goes on. The technology itself will insure this. Drexler himself may not understand how radical the transformation of the human species into a Transhuman species will be – or perhaps he is keeping it to himself to prevent even more insults by those who cannot think beyond "fancy pants" – and the Not Invented Here syndrome which Smalley typifies.