Engines of creation / K. Eric Drexler.
By: Drexler, K. Eric.
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992Description: x, 298 p. + pbk.ISBN: 0192861492 .Subject(s): Nanotechnology | High technologyDDC classification: 607Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 607 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00013285 |
Part One The foundations of foresight: Engines of construction -- The principles of change -- Predicting and projecting -- Part Two Profiles of the possible: Engines of abundance -- Thinking machines -- The world beyond earth -- Engines of healing -- Long life in an open world -- A door to the future -- The limits to growth -- Part Three Dangers and hopes: Engines of destruction -- Strategies and survival -- Finding the facts -- The network of knowledge -- Worlds enough and time.