Holywell Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3SA
UK
his book talk is hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology
Dr K. Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, will be giving a talk on the subject of his book Radical Abundance: How a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilization.
Eric will show how rapid progress in the molecular sciences will enable the development of high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing, a technology with the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a radically lower cost. The result will shake the foundations of our economy and our relationship to Earth’s environment, enabling us to make products of all sorts cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. Radical Abundance allows us to envision a world where high-performance solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and billion-processor tablet computers cost about the same. Radical Abundance describes a world on a path to an unexpected future, and raises key questions about implications for global problems and global governance.
This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome.