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 49
... hard to describe . It is as if the surface were magnetic - it pulls on your fingertip if you move close enough . But the result isn't a sharp click of contact , because the surface isn't hard like a magnet , but strangely soft ...
... hard to describe . It is as if the surface were magnetic - it pulls on your fingertip if you move close enough . But the result isn't a sharp click of contact , because the surface isn't hard like a magnet , but strangely soft ...
Page 67
... hard you push , there's no way to drive your finger through the wall of the pipe . Every few paces along the pipe a fitting juts out , a housing with a mechanically driven rotating thing , exposed to the liquid in- side the pipe , but ...
... hard you push , there's no way to drive your finger through the wall of the pipe . Every few paces along the pipe a fitting juts out , a housing with a mechanically driven rotating thing , exposed to the liquid in- side the pipe , but ...
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... HARD K. ERIC DREXLER On the left is graphite - the material called " lead " in pencils - made of car- bon atoms . On the right is diamond — the same atoms arranged in a different pattern . held together by stronger forces , and so they ...
... HARD K. ERIC DREXLER On the left is graphite - the material called " lead " in pencils - made of car- bon atoms . On the right is diamond — the same atoms arranged in a different pattern . held together by stronger forces , and so they ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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