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Engines of Creation

The Coming Era of Nanotechnology



K. Eric Drexler

Anchor Books, 1986

Original web version prepared and links added by Russell Whitaker.


 

Table of Contents


COVER PAGE & links to non-English versions


FOREWORD
- by Marvin Minsky

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE - THE FOUNDATIONS OF FORESIGHT

1 - Engines of Construction
2 - The Principles of Change
3 - Predicting and Projecting

PART TWO - PROFILES OF THE POSSIBLE

4 - Engines of Abundance
5 - Thinking Machines
6 - The World Beyond Earth
7 - Engines of Healing
8 - Long Life in an Open World
9 - A Door to the Future
10 - The Limits to Growth

PART THREE - DANGERS AND HOPES

11 - Engines of Destruction
12 - Strategies and Survival
13 - Finding the Facts
14 - The Network of Knowledge
15 - Worlds Enough, and Time

AFTERWORD

GLOSSARY

NOTES AND REFERENCES





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For a physics-based analysis of the fundamental technologies, please see:

Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation



Original text scanning by John L. Quel and John Cramer.
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