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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... nanocomputer . " The grand hall has its own conveyor belt , bearing a series of partially completed nanocomputers . Arrayed along this grand belt is a row of grand arms , able to swing to and fro , to reach down to lesser conveyor belts ...
... nanocomputer . " The grand hall has its own conveyor belt , bearing a series of partially completed nanocomputers . Arrayed along this grand belt is a row of grand arms , able to swing to and fro , to reach down to lesser conveyor belts ...
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... nanocomputers , enough to out - compute all the microelec- tronic computers of the twentieth century put together . Back in the dark ages of the 1980s , an exploratory engineer pro- posed that nanocomputers could be mechanical , using ...
... nanocomputers , enough to out - compute all the microelec- tronic computers of the twentieth century put together . Back in the dark ages of the 1980s , an exploratory engineer pro- posed that nanocomputers could be mechanical , using ...
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... nano- computers , they could . One laboratory could then do more than all of today's materials scientists put together . Biology : Today ... nanocomputers will give us practical machines with a trillion times 144 UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE.
... nano- computers , they could . One laboratory could then do more than all of today's materials scientists put together . Biology : Today ... nanocomputers will give us practical machines with a trillion times 144 UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE.
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The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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