Engines of Creation

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Fourth Estate, 1996 - High technology - 296 pages
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'Engines of Creation is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically sound.' Marvin Minsky, Donner Professor of Science, MIT

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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

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About the author (1996)

K. Eric Drexler is the world authority on nano-technology. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and president of the Foresight Institute

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