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Revision as of 12:24, 7 June 2023
Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation - by K. Eric Drexler
"Nanosystems" [1]
is the main technical reference book for feasibility analysis of the far term target of atomically precise manufacturing
which is Gemstone based metamaterial technology.
The book is for the most part:
- an identification of a sensible far term target technology
- a stringently conducted feasibility study of this target technology
Only the very last chapter touches briefly and incompletely on eventual approaches that could be part of some pathways towards that target technology.
Only resource
Till day of last review of this text (2023) there is still no other book available that:
- is covering the same topic and
- is also stringently applying exploratory engineering
As the first and last book of its kind it leaves a huge amount of exploratory engineering work that needs to be done.
And as a book that does not focus on pathways it leaves even more there..
Things to note
In the technical book Nanosystems "universal molecular assemblers" are neither proposed nor even mentioned!
Instead in the brief section about pathways at the end of the book the incremental pathway to "nanofactories" is discussed prominently.
Using biotech to get away from biotech ASAP.
The only topic in the book that may be somewhat related to universal molecular assemblers and their direct path context
is a discussion of pressure driven diamondoid actuators and from withing expandable modular plate or block vacuum sealing methods.
Why is this important?
In the preceding popular science book Engines of Creaton "universal molecular assemblers" where discussed. See: Molecular assembler.
This lead to some hype, fear, and negative influence on relevant funding. As discussed in the newest popular science book on the topic: Radical Abundance.
Molecular assemblers are absent from nanosystems not for political reasons but for technical reasons.
One point of evidence being that the dissertation and book was published well before the problems manifested around 2000.
This wiki is written independently by third party and thus
does not necessarily accurately describe the ideas of the author of Nanosystems.
Related
- Other Books By Erik K. Drexler.
- Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale
- Why gemstone metamaterial technology should work in brief
- Concept animation Video summarizing the results of the book: Productive Nanosystems From molecules to superproducts
- Far term target: Gemstone metamaterial on chip factory which are part of and create more of gem-gum technology
- More generally: Advanced productive nanosystem
- More specifically: Design of gem-gum on-chip factories
- There's also: Discussion of proposed nanofactory designs
- Disambiguation page: Productive nanosystem (disambiguation)
External links
The whole book on the internet archive here (restricted access):
https://archive.org/details/nanosystemsmolec0000drex
Eric Drexlers 1991 MIT dissertation is as he wrote
"a draft of Nanosystems" and was published by him for free to read.
Unfortunately his website is completely gone now (as of 2021-03).
Note that some parts are missing in the dissertation compared to the book including (not an exhaustive list):
- Nanosystems 11.6 Electromechanical devices (page 333) including 11.7. DC motors and generators (page 336)
- The final Nanofactory analysis listing an example System Table 14.1 (page 422)
- ...
- Drexler_MIT_dissertation.pdf (recovered via interent archive wayback machine archive)
- Alternate link (faster)
- "Original link - now broken :("
On K. Eric Drexlers website (recovered via internet archive):
- Detailed table of contents and sample chapters
- Nanosystems: what it’s about, how it's used, and where to read more
- Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
References
- ↑ Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation - by K. Eric Drexler (1992)
