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Eric Drexler

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Eric Drexler is at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, University of Oxford. His latest book is Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

October 2013

  • planet earth from space

    Small world: nanotech
    Big nanotech: an unexpected future

    Eric Drexler: How we deal with atomically precise manufacturing will reframe the future for human life and global society
  • Nanoscale planetary gear

    Small world: nanotech
    Big nanotech: building a new world with atomic precision

    Eric Drexler: Atomically precise manufacturing has implications for everything from medicine to economic development to climate change

  • A factory emits smoke and steam on a cold winter day

    Small world: nanotech
    Big nanotech: towards post-industrial manufacturing

    Eric Drexler: Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) could transform the material basis of human civilisation