Engines of CreationThis brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future. |
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Biochemists already work with these machines, which are chiefly made of protein
, the main engineering material of living cells. These molecular machines have
relatively few atoms, and so they have lumpy surfaces, like objects made by ...
Biochemists already work with these machines, which are chiefly made of protein
, the main engineering material of living cells. These molecular machines have
relatively few atoms, and so they have lumpy surfaces, like objects made by ...
Page 15
These deserve more direct answers. ' Will the uncertainty principle of quantum
physics make molecular machines unworkable? This principle states (among
other things) that particles can't be pinned down in an exact location for any
length of ...
These deserve more direct answers. ' Will the uncertainty principle of quantum
physics make molecular machines unworkable? This principle states (among
other things) that particles can't be pinned down in an exact location for any
length of ...
Page 100
Surgeons can see problems and plan actions, but they wield crude tools; drug
molecules affect tissues at the molecular level, but they are too simple to sense,
plan, and act. But molecular machines directed by nanocomputers will offer ...
Surgeons can see problems and plan actions, but they wield crude tools; drug
molecules affect tissues at the molecular level, but they are too simple to sense,
plan, and act. But molecular machines directed by nanocomputers will offer ...
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Contents
PART om THE FOUNDATIONS OF FORESIGHT 1 Engines of Construction | 15 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 41 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Engines of Creation Science, technical The Anchor library of science |
| Author | K. Eric Drexler |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0385199732, 9780385199735 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / Applied Sciences Science / Nanoscience |
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