Radical Abundance
How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

Once upon a time a nutty scientist gave a talk called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” The scientist was the wacky and wonderfully entertaining Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, the guy who solved the mystery of the Challenger disaster. It was 1959, and he was not referring to organization chart......more

Comecei o livro achando que ele trataria de nanotecnologia e perspectivas recentes, mas encontrei algo bem diferente. Drexler passa a maior parte do tempo definindo como ele é o criador da área e maior autoridade no assunto desde que publicou Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (al......more

What a frustratingly dull book. It seemed, on the surface, like a go-to source for a survey of nanotechnology; it is, after all, written by the fellow who coined the term. The author, unfortunately, uses the book as a mere platform to decry the bastardization of the term nanotechnology itself (alas,......more

This book was really an attempt by the author to set the record straight on the original meaning of Nanotechnology and how this has gone array for a myriad of reasons that involved money, power, and circumstance. As does anything.I think would have rather read Engines of Creation as I think this fel......more

I've been following the developments in nanotech since the 90's, when I read Drexler's original book (Engines of Creation). Both that one and the subsequent one (Nanosystems) were better than this one. The technical details he presents in this book were already familiar, as well as the potential for......more