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By K. Eric Drexler

K. Eric Drexler is the founder of nanotechnology—the technology of engineering on a molecular point. In Radical Abundance, he exhibits how quick clinical growth is set to alter our global. because of atomically detailed production, we are going to quickly have the ability to supply noticeably extra of what humans wish, and at a lower price. the end result will shake the very foundations of our financial system and environment.

Already, scientists have developed prototypes for circuit forums equipped of thousands of accurately prepared atoms. the arrival of this sort of atomic precision delivers to alter the best way we make things—cleanly, inexpensively, and on an international scale. It permits us to visualize an international the place sun arrays fee not more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and laptops rate in regards to the same.

A provocative travel of innovative technological know-how and its implications by means of the field's founder and grasp, Radical Abundance deals a mind-expanding imaginative and prescient of an international hurtling towards an unforeseen future.

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