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non-fiction, lecture, science, physics, molecular engineering, nanotechnology
Lecture which Feynman originally delivered at the December 1959 meeting of the American Physical Society, held at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. Subsequently, this lecture was published in the journal: Engineering and Science , Issue 23, February 1960 (which featured a photo of Feynman on the cover). Later, it was reprinted in Miniaturization edited by H.D.Gilbert (1961).
"This seminal lecture introduced the concept 'of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale', which is now seen to be the forerunner idea to K.Eric Drexler's revolutionary concept of nanotechnology. It is also memorable for the mind-blowing suggestion that the entire 24-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica could be written on the head of a pin." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
A truly historic essay. Classic Feynman.
Foresight Institute
(nanotechnology research institute... founded by K.Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson,
e-mail: foresight@cup.portal.com)
K.Eric Drexler
(Anachron Library entry... biography, plus links to bibliography and other websites)
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