"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics" was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at the annual American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on Dec
Miniaturization (publ. 1961) included Feynman's lecture as its final chapter.
Engines of Creation
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with a foreword by Marvin Minsky. An updated version was released in 2007. The
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
…factories and added the idea that they could make more copies of themselves, via computer control instead of control by a human operator, in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. After Feynman's death, scholars studying the historical development of nanotechnology have concluded that his role in catalyzing nanotechnology research…
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