Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of NanotechnologyThis 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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Contents
Engines of Construction 32 | 3 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 39 |
PART TWO PROFILES OF THE POSSIBLE | 51 |
Engines of Abundance | 53 |
Thinking Machines | 64 |
The World Beyond Earth | 83 |
Engines of Healing | 99 |
IO The Limits to Growth | 147 |
PART THREE DANGERS AND HOPES | 169 |
Engines of Destruction | 171 |
Strategies and Survival | 191 |
Finding the Facts | 203 |
The Network of Knowledge | 217 |
Worlds Enough and Time | 231 |
GLOSSARY | 285 |
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