Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 16, 1987 - Science - 320 pages
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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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

Long Life in an Open World
117
A Door to the Future
130

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K. Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known as the founding father of nanotechnology. Drexler popularized the potential of molecular nanotechnology during his years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned three degrees from MIT; a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Sciences, an M.S. in Astro/Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab. His thesis on molecular nanotechnology, the first doctoral degree on the topic, was published as Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (1992). The book received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He currently resides in Oxford.

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