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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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K. Eric Drexler is the world authority on nano-technology. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and president of the Foresight Institute
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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If Carl Sagan's Cosmos was the book about everything (being the Universe everything) then Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation could well be the 21st Century's Bible.. Notice that it was written quite a long time ago yet it'll be hard even for the next generation to criticise. It's a true vision with a magnificent scientific support. It tells you all about nanotechnology's power to be with it's overwhelming future effects on our society. It's also great for you if you're starting a career in nanosciences allthough the practical aspect has been neglected to some extent (being difficult to prove most of his visions - for the time being..) I'm convinced that he's shown us the next human being's Frontier with this masterpiece and it should be read in school no matter what you'll be studying in the future.
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This book is one of the definitive early books on Nanotechnology, from K. Eric Drexler, who developed most of the concept. The nanotechnology proposed by Drexler is not merely the sort of "nanotechnology" described routinely in the media in stories about new drugs or hair products but a fully capable system of "digital matter processing" using machines built to nanometere level precision, capable of self-replicating and doing for the handling of matter what computers did for the handling of information.
This book aims for readability and persuasion more than depth, but Drexler's other definitive book, Nanosystems, discusses the concept in more technical detail. For most readers, however, this book is an ideal introduction to Drexler's ideas.
If Drexler is right then once such technology appears the world will be radically different. Engines of Creation is an essential book for anyone interested in future technology.
This book aims for readability and persuasion more than depth, but Drexler's other definitive book, Nanosystems, discusses the concept in more technical detail. For most readers, however, this book is an ideal introduction to Drexler's ideas.
If Drexler is right then once such technology appears the world will be radically different. Engines of Creation is an essential book for anyone interested in future technology.
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Engines of Creations is a really exciting book about the possibility of a fantastic future. While nanotechnology is the main part of the book, Drexler talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI), colonisation of space, information management, and an extended almost immortal life. He doesn't just talk about these things but predicts how these technologies will develop, how we will use them and the social implications.
The book can be very technical at times as the author begins by explaining how DNA is a nanomachine and how it encodes and produces every living thing. He uses this as a model for man to design DNA like machines and extends this to nanomachines not based on building proteins but building non-organic machines.
Large parts of the book talk about the steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that the technology is produced with appropriate safeguards in place (both physical and political).
The book was published in 1990 when html and the web was still being developed. Towards the end of the book there is a chapter on information. He discusses using html and how it will revolutionise the way we store/update documents. He basically explains the web as it is now.
The ideas in this book are used extensively in almost every modern sci-fi book or movie out there.
The book can be very technical at times as the author begins by explaining how DNA is a nanomachine and how it encodes and produces every living thing. He uses this as a model for man to design DNA like machines and extends this to nanomachines not based on building proteins but building non-organic machines.
Large parts of the book talk about the steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that the technology is produced with appropriate safeguards in place (both physical and political).
The book was published in 1990 when html and the web was still being developed. Towards the end of the book there is a chapter on information. He discusses using html and how it will revolutionise the way we store/update documents. He basically explains the web as it is now.
The ideas in this book are used extensively in almost every modern sci-fi book or movie out there.
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Drexler is the one that they all refer to when discussing nanotechnology. He discusses the concept in a way that I found easy to read, and makes the various points in a clear,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mole
A passionate advocacy of science
Drexler's book Engines of Creation discussing the potential and ramifications of nanotechnology has influenced the great and the good of futurism from Wired magazine to science... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2010 by Mr. G. Carroll
Absolutely loved this book and feed my imagination
A good explanation of what Nano technology is, what the possibilities are good and bad, and general titillating ideas.
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by Graham Vincent
K.Eric Drexler's Atheistic Faith. A potentially good read, spoiled by...
The first little incline I had that this book was geared towards the Evolution Theory was under the sub-title 'Existing Protein Machines' (on page 8) which reads: 'Yet over three... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2009 by Steven Taylor
Amazing
Drexler takes the reader methodically through the possibilities of nanotechnology. He builds a really strong case for the inevitability of this technology and how profoundly it... Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2002 by D. Metz
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