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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... MEDICINE Of all the areas where the ability to manufacture new tools is important , medicine is perhaps the greatest . The human body is in- tricate , and that intricacy extends beyond the range of human vision , beyond microscopic ...
... MEDICINE Of all the areas where the ability to manufacture new tools is important , medicine is perhaps the greatest . The human body is in- tricate , and that intricacy extends beyond the range of human vision , beyond microscopic ...
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... medicine often means an expensive way to pro- long misery . Will nanomedicine be more of the same ? Any reader over the age of , say , thirty knows how things start to go wrong : an ache here , a wrinkle there , the loss of an ability ...
... medicine often means an expensive way to pro- long misery . Will nanomedicine be more of the same ? Any reader over the age of , say , thirty knows how things start to go wrong : an ache here , a wrinkle there , the loss of an ability ...
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... medicine won't be a cure - all . Consider a fifty- year - old mentally retarded man , with a mind like a two - year - old's , or a woman with a brain tumor that has spread to the point that her personality has changed : How could they ...
... medicine won't be a cure - all . Consider a fifty- year - old mentally retarded man , with a mind like a two - year - old's , or a woman with a brain tumor that has spread to the point that her personality has changed : How could they ...
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The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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