Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation is a book by Kim Eric Drexler , published in 1986 by Anchor Books . It is about nanotechnology , specifically molecular manufacturing, and its possible and probable effects on the future. The book was written for readers with no scientific or technical background and through its visionary ideas has motivated many scientists to research and work in the field of nanotechnology, including Richard E. Smalley , an opponent of Drexler's ideas of molecular manufacturing, who won the Nobel Prize in 1996 for chemistry.
Engines of Creation was published in English and was translated into French by a private person free of charge.
The free network version differs from the printed version by an additional afterword, which was written in 1985 , shortly before the first publication, and expanded in 1990 and 1996 .
chapter
- Engines of Construction
- The Principles of Change
- Predicting and Projecting
- Engines of Abundance
- Thinking Machines
- The World Beyond Earth
- Engines of Healing
- Long Life in an Open World
- A Door to the Future
- The Limits to Growth
- Engines of Destruction
- Strategies and Survival
- Finding the Facts
- The Network of Knowledge
- Worlds Enough, and Time
Web links
- Engines of Creation as a free network version. ISBN 0-385-19973-2
- Foresight Institute , a non-profit organization founded by K. Eric Drexler and Christine Peterson, which aims to prepare the general public for nanotechnology through seminars, policy recommendations and publications.
- Unbounding the Future , another non- tech book on nanotechnology (by Eric Drexler and Christine Peterson). 1991, ISBN 0-688-12573-5
- Nanosystems , a technical book that provides an accurate overview of the science behind nanotechnology and also analyzes applications such as manufacturing techniques and molecular computers. 1992, ISBN 0-471-57518-6
- "There's plenty of room at the bottom" , a 1959 speech given by Richard P. Feynman on the manipulation of individual atoms. This concept is a basis for nanotechnology.