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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Anchor Library of Science) Paperback – September 16, 1987

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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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Series: Anchor Library of Science
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Anchor; 58153rd edition (October 16, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780385199735
ISBN-13: 978-0385199735
ASIN: 0385199732
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
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The original prophet of the nano-world to come...

October 25, 2015

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I read this when it was first published back in '86 and it was such an astounding book I bought at least another half dozen to give to people I thought would appreciate the message being delivered.

It's also available online as a download for $1.00 from the author. The online edition also has some updates in it.

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April 15, 2017

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pages are brown with age and the read is slow. It's interesting and informative and gives me a lot to consider and contemplate. I can't read more than a page or even a paragraph without having to stop and consider the impacts on life and my world. good book!

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Engineer of Innovation

December 29, 1999

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If you were to ask the world's greatest authorities on modern technology to select the five most influential books written thus far on that subject, Engines of Creation would probably be on most (if not all) lists. In it, Drexler analyzes "the coming era of nanotechnology." Obviously, that era has (since 1986) arrived. Nonetheless, Drexler's observations remain both valid and instructive. The book is organized as Part One: The Foundations of Foresight, Part Two: Profiles of the Possible, and Part Three: Dangers and Hopes. In certain respects, Engines of Creation is even more valuable today than it was when first published. It should be required reading for undergraduate and graduate students (especially those at work on a degree in engineering, the natural sciences, mathematics, or business) as well as for executives in organizations which hope to survive the "age of nanotechnology." Think of your organization as a vehicle. Viewed as such, it obviously needs an engine, fuel, a transmission, a brake, an accelerator, etc. Speed is only one component of the formula for success. Durability is another. For your organization to reach its destination, it must also have a map. Engines of Creation is about technology, of course, and it is also about innovation in an age when speed is often the difference between success and failure. But Drexler also provides the equivalent of a map to guide his reader. Misdirected speed can demolish an entire organization as well as a single vehicle....and those within it. Years from now, Engines of Creation will still be read and admired. Why? Because it will still be relevant.

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Watershed book on the transhumanist movement

November 20, 2007

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Engines of Creation describes the foundations of and the issues surrounding humankind's increasing potential for building molecular machines. (Indeed as we stand here on the verge of 2008, notable accomplishments in nanotechnology continue to be made.) Drexler's "starter kit" comprises what he calls "universal assemblers," which are nanomachines designed for a simple task, such as replacing defective genetic links with healthful ones or bonding one cellular structure to another.

...I'm impressed with what the author and his peers have deeply pondered on preventing nanotechnological disasters, either from accident or from conscious intention of some malefactor. When one realizes a technology that can terraform planets can also readily destroy them... and us, one becomes a bit careful in how the technology is handled. The entire Part 3 of Drexler's book, "Engines of Destruction," is devoted to this issue.

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One of the best science books ever written

August 18, 2000

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The founder of the field of nanotechnology wrote this masterpiece, surely one of the best science books ever written on any subject. He even has a few paragraphs on memes! As you read this book, you find yourself drawn into Drexler's excitement about the technological utopia he predicts. We will live forever, be disease-free, and have nanomachines do everything for us. That is, until the nanoviruses appear...
--Richard Brodie, author, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme

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John Rogers Bryan

Reads like SF, dreams like the future.

July 18, 1998

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Drexler's ideas are way ahead of his times but are coming more mainstream (read Stephenson's Diamond Age and Bear's Slant). Drexler is able to describe a coherent project plan to develop and implement the technology of the future. This book will inspire and amaze generations of engineers (and obviously, SF writers) for years to come. Although I don't see any reason for the existence of Universal Assemblers (I hope I'm wrong), Drexler describes reasonable rationals for future society-changing products.

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August 12, 2015

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so scary but necessary to know what is really going on in our world--sad to say.must read.

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Definitely a provocative read!

December 9, 2006

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I read this book a number of years ago, and it still has a special place in my canon of books on technology and humanity. This is an engaging and lucid look at the future potential, and dangers, of miniturization, nano-scale physics and science meeting together in the form of nanotechnology.

The ideas of molecular construction and deconstruction are truly intriguing and scary. Imagine being disassembled molecule by molecule by a nanoconstructor. Or, the idea of creating a crystal rocket out of pure atoms. This book is full of ideas and potentiality, and the ethical questions are perhaps just the tip of this literary iceberg.

A great read for anyone interested in future technology and how science and technology are fusing on the cutting edge of reality. You don't need to be a quantum physicist or even a PhD to enojy this book. I read it as an undergrad in college and had a good time with it. It even inspired a sci-fi/fantasy book still in progress.

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