Engines of Creation - Hardcover

Drexler, K. Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385199724 ISBN 13: 9780385199728

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1986

Synopsis

Focusing on the breakthrough field of molecular engineering--a new technology enabling scientists to build tiny machines atom by atom--the author offers projections on how this technological revolution will affect the future of computer science, space travel, medicine, and manufacturing

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From the Publisher:

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0385199724
• ISBN 13: 9780385199728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298