Nanotechnology: The Technology of the Future

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.