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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... living looks utopian today . The world's poor are numerous and the wealthy are few , and yet the Earth's resources are already strained by our crude industrial and agricultural technologies . For the 1970s and 1980s , with a growing ...
... living looks utopian today . The world's poor are numerous and the wealthy are few , and yet the Earth's resources are already strained by our crude industrial and agricultural technologies . For the 1970s and 1980s , with a growing ...
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... living for everyone . This is a basic fact , and to ignore it would be to destroy our future . Yet within sight is a time in which the world's poorest can be raised to a material standard of living that would be the envy of the world's ...
... living for everyone . This is a basic fact , and to ignore it would be to destroy our future . Yet within sight is a time in which the world's poorest can be raised to a material standard of living that would be the envy of the world's ...
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... living and able to support themselves for a long time , with illnesses that can be handled easily and inexpensively . Present social - security benefits are enough to provide a certain standard of living — food , housing ...
... living and able to support themselves for a long time , with illnesses that can be handled easily and inexpensively . Present social - security benefits are enough to provide a certain standard of living — food , housing ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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