Unprecedented Production Capacity Advance Electronics, Aerospace, and Medicine Low-cost Solar Electric Power Systems Transition to a Zero Net Carbon Economy

1. Radical Abundance
How a Revolution in Nanotechnology
will change civilization
by K. Eric Drexler
Book Review by Ashlin Burton

2. What is Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM)
(Drexler, 2013)

3. The Social and Economic Potential
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Unprecedented Production Capacity
Advance Electronics, Aerospace, and Medicine
Low-cost Solar Electric Power Systems
Transition to a Zero Net Carbon Economy

4. A New Kind of Factory
(Drexler, 2013)

5. Threats to Progress
• Disruptive Resistance on a National Scale
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International Trade Impact (Reduced Resource Requirements)
Labor & Income Impact (Reduced Labor Requirements)
Military Balance (Superior low-cost technology)
Fear of Unintended Unexpected Consequences (Entirely New)
• Unconstrained Deployment of Advanced
Technologies
– No qualified regulatory body to monitor leaving only the
adversarial and political system to determine path.

6. References
Drexler, E. (2013, September 16). Eric Drexler lecture & debate: "Radical
Abundance" - Nanotechnology Science Cafe | KennisCafé Nanotechnologie
[Video file]. Retrieved from Vemio website: http://vimeo.com/74876270