Engines of CreationThis brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future. |
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Page 17
Nanomachines floating in sterile test tubes, free of cells, have been made to
perform all the basic sorts of activities that they perform inside living cells. Starting
with chemicals that can be made from smoggy air, biochemists have built working
...
Nanomachines floating in sterile test tubes, free of cells, have been made to
perform all the basic sorts of activities that they perform inside living cells. Starting
with chemicals that can be made from smoggy air, biochemists have built working
...
Page 49
Today, however, the basic laws most important to engineering—those describing
normal matter—seem well understood. As with surviving theories of gravity, the
scientific engine of disproof has forced surviving theories of matter into close ...
Today, however, the basic laws most important to engineering—those describing
normal matter—seem well understood. As with surviving theories of gravity, the
scientific engine of disproof has forced surviving theories of matter into close ...
Page 119
This pattern is fairly consistent because evolution seldom changes a basic
design. Just as the basic pattern of the DNA-RNA-protein system froze several
billions of years ago, so the basic pattern of chemical signals and tissue
responses that ...
This pattern is fairly consistent because evolution seldom changes a basic
design. Just as the basic pattern of the DNA-RNA-protein system froze several
billions of years ago, so the basic pattern of chemical signals and tissue
responses that ...
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User Review - nubianangel - Overstock.comEngines of Creation is a very good book to help the nonscientist get a grasp on the complexities of nano technology where we are and where we could go with it. While it breaks the information down to ... Read full review
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User Review - mentatjack - LibraryThingThis is one of my favorite science non-fiction books ever. If you've enjoyed any of the nanotechnology in science fiction in the last few decades, it was probably informed in some way by Drexler's ... Read full review
Contents
PART om THE FOUNDATIONS OF FORESIGHT 1 Engines of Construction | 15 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 41 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Engines of Creation Science, technical The Anchor library of science |
| Author | K. Eric Drexler |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0385199732, 9780385199735 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / Applied Sciences Science / Nanoscience |
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