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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with a foreword by Marvin Minsky. An updated version was released in 2007. The book has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.[1] The book features nanotechnology, which Richard Feynman had discussed in his 1959 speech "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." Drexler imagines a world where the entire Library of Congress can fit on a chip the size of a sugar cube and where universal assemblers, tiny machines that can build objects atom by atom, will be used for everything from medicinal robots that help clear capillaries to environmental scrubbers that clear pollutants from the air. In the book, Drexler proposes the gray goo scenario—one prediction of what might happen if molecular nanotechnology were used to build uncontrollable self-replicating machines. Topics also include hypertext as developed by Project Xanadu and life exte

Engines of Creation - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1986 book written by K. Eric Drexler This article is about the book on molecular nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler. For the Joe Satriani album, see Engines of Creation (Joe Satriani album) . Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology Hardcover of updated version Author K. Eric Drexler Language English Subject Molecular nanotechnology Genre Non-fiction Publisher Doubleday Publication date 1986 Publication place United States Media type Print ISBN 0-385-19973-2 Online Computer Library Center number</

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