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K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment.

Already, scientists have constructed prototypes for circuit boards built of millions of precisely arranged atoms. The advent of this kind of atomic precision promises to change the way we make things—cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. It allows us to imagine a world where solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and laptops cost about the same.

A provocative tour of cutting edge science and its implications by the field's founder and master, Radical Abundance offers a mind-expanding vision of a world hurtling toward an unexpected future.

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“A stimulating tour through current thinking about and future possibilities for nanotechnology, from one of its creators… A crackerjack piece of science and technology writing.”

Albany Times Union

“K. Eric Drexler writes in his accessible new book "Radical Abundance" that the digital revolution is about to give way to a form of production that will radically transform the world economy and that could also save the environment: nanotechnology, or more specifically, atomically precise manufacturing.”

Nature Magazine

“Nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler bids us to leap in at the technological deep end. We can transform the way we make everything from bridges to circuit boards, he argues, by harnessing molecular machines that operate on digital principles. The result? Desktop or garage facilities that use less fuel, land and energy than today’s vast factories and supply chains. The technical and political challenges of unleashing ‘atomically precise manufacturing’ are substantial, but Drexler cuts deftly through the complexities.”

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K. Eric Drexler developed, named, and popularized the concept of nanotechnology. Currently at the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology at Oxford University, Drexler is a frequent public speaker on scientific issues, addressing audiences of politicians, business leaders, scientists, and engineers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs; First Edition (US) First Printing edition (May 7, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1610391136
ISBN-13: 978-1610391139
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Rather Disappointing Retrospective

ByQuinbuson August 10, 2016

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Rather disappointing. Then again, I have to say that I gave up halfway through the book; possibly I missed the good stuff.

The first half is pretty much an apologia for what Eric Drexler called "nanotechnology" in his 1986 book, "Engines of Creation." That book triggered expectations which haven't been fulfilled in thirty years. The label "nanotechnology" has been applied to methods that don't resemble those Dr Drexler described in '86, so he eschews it in favor of the less exciting "atomically precise manufacturing" or "APM." His excitement has cooled, it seems.

I was hoping for technical details and descriptions of methodology that I didn't find. What I found instead were chapters on the distinction between science and engineering, and the history of technology, written in what seems to me a defensive mood.

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This book caused a radical change in my view of the future

ByWarren Whitlockon August 5, 2015

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Writing this months after reading Radical Abundance and happy to report this book changed my life and career.

I've always been an optimist, looking at the future as progress waiting to happen and wondering why anyone would see dystopia.. eeling sorry for them that imagine life getting worse.

Having read Drexler, I'm convinced that the future is abundant and our challenge is to alert mankind that the difficult times of transition are going to be worth. We don't have all the answer, but the direction we are headed will mean a better world for all.