Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology RevolutionA comprehensive, easy-to-understand handbook that explains what nanotechnology is and how it will revolutionize life in the future. The world's leading expert in the field, Drexler also examines the spectacular accomplishments that might result from a breakthrough: elimination of disease and pollution. 20 illustrations. |
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... described in this book . “ WILL QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY MESS THINGS UP ? ” Quantum mechanics says that particles must be described as small smears of probability , not as points with perfectly defined locations . This is , in fact , why the ...
... described in this book . “ WILL QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY MESS THINGS UP ? ” Quantum mechanics says that particles must be described as small smears of probability , not as points with perfectly defined locations . This is , in fact , why the ...
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... described above to the shaggy , seething living cell described in the last chapter . Biology is complex in a strange and wonderful way . Engineers need not even understand life , much less duplicate it , merely to build a molecular ...
... described above to the shaggy , seething living cell described in the last chapter . Biology is complex in a strange and wonderful way . Engineers need not even understand life , much less duplicate it , merely to build a molecular ...
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... described : bacterial- sized , omnivorous , able to survive in a wide range of natural envi- ronments , able to build copies of themselves , and made with just a few built - in safeguards — perhaps a clock that shuts them off after a ...
... described : bacterial- sized , omnivorous , able to survive in a wide range of natural envi- ronments , able to build copies of themselves , and made with just a few built - in safeguards — perhaps a clock that shuts them off after a ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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