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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology Paperback - 1987

by Eric Drexler

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Anchor Books, 1987. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
  • Author Eric Drexler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0385199732
  • ISBN 9780385199735 / 0385199732
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.26 x 0.88 in (20.93 x 13.36 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Twentieth century, High technology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85025362
  • Dewey Decimal Code 600

First line

COAL AND DIAMONDS, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy.

From the jacket flap

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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About the author

K. Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known as the founding father of nanotechnology. Drexler popularized the potential of molecular nanotechnology during his years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned three degrees from MIT; a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Sciences, an M.S. in Astro/Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab. His thesis on molecular nanotechnology, the first doctoral degree on the topic, was published as Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (1992). The book received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He currently resides in Oxford.