Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation is a book by Kim Eric Drexler, published in 1986 by Verlag Anchor Books. It is about nanotechnology, especially of molecular manufacturing and its possible and probable impact on the future. The book was written for readers without a scientific or technical background and has through his visionary ideas, many scientists motivated to conduct research in the field of nanotechnology and work, including Richard E. Smalley, an opponent of Drexler's ideas of molecular manufacturing, in 1996 the Nobel Prize received for chemistry.
Engines of Creation is published in English and has been translated by a private person without charge into French.
The free network version differs from the printed version with an additional epilogue, which was in 1985, shortly before the first publication, written and extended in 1990 and 1996.