Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and chairman of the Foresight Institute. He has written much about nanotechnology and coined the word "nanomachine". The Institute for Molecular Manufacturing has a Curriculum Vita of Drexler. He originally began investigating thin films a few molecules thick in order to construct solar sails. Books by Eric Drexler Engines of Creation (1986) Available online at Engines of Creation - K. Eric Drexler Unbounding the Future (1991; with Chris Peterson and Gayle Pergamit) Available online at Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation (1992) Books and Articles about Eric Drexler Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology by Ed Regis "The Creator": Interview with Eric Drexler by Michael Berry "The Incredible Shrinking World of Eric Drexler": Red Herring Interview by Anthony B. Perkins This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.