Engines of Creation

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Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986 - Science - 298 pages
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This 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 32
Quality control is a sort of evolution, aiming not at change but at eliminating
harmful variations. But just as Darwinian evolution can preserve and spread
favorable mutations, so good quality control systems can help managers and
workers to ...
Page 293
See Hypertext; Nanocomputers Cooperation, 36, 97-98; evolution of, 248; in
technology, 195-96 Costs, 93-95 Courts: and due process, 207-8; evolution of,
206-7. See alto Fact forum Cryonics, 135; and cell repair, 268; services, 269. See
also ...
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Replicators: defined, 23; in evolution, 26; distinct uses of word, 251; machines as,
34-35; mental, 35-37; selfishness of, 36-37. See alm DNA; Evolution; Genes;
Memes; Molecular replicators; Replication Resources: cost of, 94, 97; of Earth,
161; ...

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Engines 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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This 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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Engines of Creation
K. Eric Drexler
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K. Eric Drexler
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About the author (1986)

K. ERIC DREXLER published the first scientific paper on molecular nanotechnology in 1981. In addition, he taught the first course on the subject (at Stanford University) and chaired the first two conferences. He is currently President of the Foresight Institute and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. He wrote Nanosystems while a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Department of Computer Science and continues to lecture at universities and corporations in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. He received his doctoral degree in molecular nanotechnology from MIT.

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TitleEngines of Creation
Science, technical
The Anchor library of science
AuthorK. Eric Drexler
Editionreprint
PublisherAnchor Press/Doubleday, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized9 Aug 2011
ISBN0385199732, 9780385199735
Length298 pages
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Science / Applied Sciences
Science / Nanoscience
  
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