Eric Drexler is a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and chairman of the Foresight Institute. He has written much about nanotechnology.
Books:
- Engines of Creation (1986)
- Unbounding the Future (1991; with Chris Peterson and Gayle Pergamit)
- Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation (1992)
Engines of Creation is available online at http://www.foresight.org/EOC/.