Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

Eric Drexler

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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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 ...

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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 ...

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

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology; Science, technical; The Anchor library of science
• Author: Eric Drexler
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987
• ISBN: 0385199732, 9780385199735
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Science / Nanoscience; Social Science / Future Studies; Technology & Engineering / History