Website review: Engines of Creation - K. Eric Drexl...
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Scarlette rated 8 months ago- Originally published two decades ago, K. Eric Drexler's classic, thought-provoking examination of nanotechnology is every bit as relevant today, if not more so. Presented in its entirety on Drexler's own website, the book makes a very concrete case for molecular assembler technology's inevitability, the strength of which is diminished not one bit by the fact that gains in the field have, thus far, been fewer and more far between than some might have guessed upon reading the book in earlier decades.
Far from timid, Drexler's book wrestles with the difficult ethical and philosophical questions which will accompany the emergence of molecular assemblers, outlining a wide array of possible consequences, not all of them appealing. Nanotechnology could allow us to inhabit incorruptible bodies and sail a sea of (almost) limitless resources. It could also lead to the extermination of humankind overnight.
My favorite chapter deals with the ways in which nanotechnology could facilitate the colonization of space, allowing us to harvest resources from asteroids, sail on sunlight, and build whole continents in orbit.- Originally published two decades ago, K. Eric Drexler's classic, thought-provoking examination of nanotechnology is every bit as relevant today, if not more so. Presented in its entirety on Drexler's own website, the book makes a very concrete case for molecular assembler technology's inevitability, the strength of which is diminished not one bit by the fact that gains in the field have, thus far, been fewer and more far between than some might have guessed upon reading the book in earlier decades.
- Ragle rated 18 months ago
- A classic ... very visionary and thought provoking.
- fateypoo rated 26 months ago
- Yet another futurist proven wrong by the course of time...
