Engines of Creation is a molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler in 1986. The foreword is by Marvin Minsky of MIT. Engines of Creation has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.
Topics include hypertext as developed by Project Xanadu and life extension.
It also features nanotechnology, which Richard Feynman had discussed in his 1959 speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
Drexler wrote...
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Engines of Creation is a molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler in 1986. The foreword is by Marvin Minsky of MIT. Engines of Creation has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.
Topics include hypertext as developed by Project Xanadu and life extension.
It also features nanotechnology, which Richard Feynman had discussed in his 1959 speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
Drexler wrote about a world where the entire Library of Congress fit a chip the size of a sugar cube and "universal assemblers" (tiny machines that build atom by atom) will be used for everything from medicinal robots that help clear the capillaries to environmental scrubbers that clear pollutants from the air.
Engines of Creation (Chapter 10, Limits to Growth) takes a Malthusian view of exponential growth within limits to growth. It also promotes space advocacy arguing that, because the universe is essentially infinite, life can escape the limits to...
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