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 22
... wealth ripped from the flesh of the Earth , but green wealth unfolding from processes as clean as a grow- ing tree . Today , our industrial technologies force us to choose better quality or lower cost or greater safety or a cleaner ...
... wealth ripped from the flesh of the Earth , but green wealth unfolding from processes as clean as a grow- ing tree . Today , our industrial technologies force us to choose better quality or lower cost or greater safety or a cleaner ...
Page 170
... wealth . Few have allowed themselves to consider what it might be like to live in a world with far greater material wealth because it has seemed impossible . Any discussion of such things will inevitably have a whiff of the 1950s or ...
... wealth . Few have allowed themselves to consider what it might be like to live in a world with far greater material wealth because it has seemed impossible . Any discussion of such things will inevitably have a whiff of the 1950s or ...
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... wealth , the only escape from poverty . Now we can see a clean , efficient , and unobtrusive alternative : green wealth , com- patible with natural wealth . ENDING CHEMICAL POLLUTION , CUTTING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION We've already seen how ...
... wealth , the only escape from poverty . Now we can see a clean , efficient , and unobtrusive alternative : green wealth , com- patible with natural wealth . ENDING CHEMICAL POLLUTION , CUTTING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION We've already seen how ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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