Nanotechnology and the Frontiers of the Possible

Eric Drexler is a researcher in nanotechnology, a technology based on self-replicating molecular machines, computers smaller than living cells and microscopic machines. He is a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and President of the Foresight Institute. He is author of Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and co-author of The Ecology of Computation. From the University Lectures Program archive.