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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... today's computers ( essentially by letting us package a trillion computers in a small space , without gobbling too ... today's techniques are not only crude , but destructive . Archae- ological sites are unique records of the human past ...
... today's computers ( essentially by letting us package a trillion computers in a small space , without gobbling too ... today's techniques are not only crude , but destructive . Archae- ological sites are unique records of the human past ...
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... Today's surgery can rearrange blood vessels , but is far too coarse to rearrange or repair cells . Today's drug therapies can target some specific molecules , but only some , and only on the basis of type . Doctors today can't affect ...
... Today's surgery can rearrange blood vessels , but is far too coarse to rearrange or repair cells . Today's drug therapies can target some specific molecules , but only some , and only on the basis of type . Doctors today can't affect ...
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... today's industry - it can probably do likewise for industrial accidents in general . The most direct approach is the most basic : the elimination of anything resembling today's bulk industrial plants and processes . The shift from messy ...
... today's industry - it can probably do likewise for industrial accidents in general . The most direct approach is the most basic : the elimination of anything resembling today's bulk industrial plants and processes . The shift from messy ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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