X-Message-Number: 1297
From:  (Ralph Merkle)
Subject: Drexler's New Nanotech Book Available

[ For those of you who do not receive sci.nanotech, I have appended
  below the first part of Ralph Merkle's recent announcement that
  Drexler's technical nanotechnology book is now available. - KQB ]

> From:  (Ralph Merkle)
> Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
> Subject: Drexler's New Book Available
> Date: 8 Oct 92 15:59:33 GMT


"Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation"
by K. Eric Drexler, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1992 ($24.95),
is now available (at least from some bookstores:  I bought a copy
from Computer Literacy in San Jose on October 5th).


"With this book, Drexler has established the field of molecular
nanotechnology.  The detailed analyses show quantum chemists and
synthetic chemists how to build upon their knowledge of bonds
and molecules to develop the manufacturing systems of nanotechnology,
and show physicists and engineers how to scale down their concepts
of macroscopic systems to the level of molecules."
    William A. Goddard III, Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics,
    Director, Materials and Molecular Simulation Center,
    California Institute of Technology


"Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering,
chemistry, medicine, and computer technology.  How can we understand
machines that are so small?  NANOSYSTEMS covers it all:  power and
strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty.
This is THE book for starting the next century of engineering."
    Marvin Minsky, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
    Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology


"Manufactured products are made from atoms, and their properties depend
on how those atoms are arranged.  This volume summarizes 15 years of
research in molecular manufacturing, the use of nanoscale mechanical
systems to guide the placement of reactive molecules, building complex
structures with atom-by-atom control.  This degree of control is a
natural goal for technology:  Microtechnology strives to build smaller
devices; materials science strives to make more useful solids; chemistry
strives to synthesize more complex molecules; manufacturing strives
to make better products.  Each of these fields requires precise,
molecular control of complex structures to reach its natural limit,
a goal that has been termed molecular nanotechnology."

"It has become clear that this degree of control can be achieved.  The
present volume assembles the conceptual and analytical tools needed
to understand molecular machinery and manufacturing, presents an
analysis of their core capabilities and explores how present laboratory
techniques can be extended, stage by stage, to implement molecular
manufacturing systems."
    K. Eric Drexler, from the preface

>From the table of contents:

[ For the complete message, including the approximately 160-line table of
  contents, send to me email with the Subject line "CRYOMSG 1297.1". - KQB ]

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