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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Page 190
... environmental damage . Faced with a food short- age , herdsmen can graze grasslands down to bare dirt . Faced with an energy shortage , industrial countries can approve destructive projects . The growth of population and the consumption ...
... environmental damage . Faced with a food short- age , herdsmen can graze grasslands down to bare dirt . Faced with an energy shortage , industrial countries can approve destructive projects . The growth of population and the consumption ...
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... ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION A central problem in environmental restoration is reversing environ- mental encroachment . We tend to see land as being gobbled up by housing , because the land where we live generally is . Farming , though ...
... ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION A central problem in environmental restoration is reversing environ- mental encroachment . We tend to see land as being gobbled up by housing , because the land where we live generally is . Farming , though ...
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... environmental and human stakes , it would , per- haps , be a wrong of historic proportions . TRYING TO STOP MEANS LOSING CONTROL The simplest imaginable approach to “ guiding " nanotechnology would be to stop it . The easiest trip to ...
... environmental and human stakes , it would , per- haps , be a wrong of historic proportions . TRYING TO STOP MEANS LOSING CONTROL The simplest imaginable approach to “ guiding " nanotechnology would be to stop it . The easiest trip to ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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