Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology RevolutionExamines the field of medicine, toxic waste, and production relating how they will revolutionize life in the future. |
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... equipment has to be cheap . The Desert Rose scenario shows how this can work . Molecular- manufacturing equipment can be used to make all the parts needed to build more molecular manufacturing equipment . It can even build the machines ...
... equipment has to be cheap . The Desert Rose scenario shows how this can work . Molecular- manufacturing equipment can be used to make all the parts needed to build more molecular manufacturing equipment . It can even build the machines ...
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... equipment and skills . ( It often has governmental problems as well , but that is another story . ) Molecular manufacturing can make equipment inexpensive enough for the poor to buy or for aid agencies to give away . This includes equipment ...
... equipment and skills . ( It often has governmental problems as well , but that is another story . ) Molecular manufacturing can make equipment inexpensive enough for the poor to buy or for aid agencies to give away . This includes equipment ...
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... equipment , by reducing the need for large numbers of people to work on one product , and bringing greater ability to produce the customized goods that people want , nanotech- nology will probably continue the twentieth - century trend ...
... equipment , by reducing the need for large numbers of people to work on one product , and bringing greater ability to produce the customized goods that people want , nanotech- nology will probably continue the twentieth - century trend ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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