Engines of CreationIn this original book about the consequences of new technologies, Drexler takes the reader through exhilarating new discoveries and the promise of those around the corner. Beginning with the insight that what we can do depends on what we can build, Drexler analyzes nanotechnology, which involves the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. He makes a plausible case for expecting technological developments in artificial intelligence and molecular engineering that will result in tiny mechanisms being controlled by microscopic powerful thinking computers. He also explains how the new alternatives could be directed toward vital human concerns -- wealth or poverty, health or sickness, peace or war. ISBN 0-385-19972-4: $17.95. |
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Page 158
... mean blown into space or blown out of existence ; he just means that the mountain's atoms have become jumbled together with others . Yet this process , he argues , means our doom . The jumbling of atoms makes them " unavailable matter ...
... mean blown into space or blown out of existence ; he just means that the mountain's atoms have become jumbled together with others . Yet this process , he argues , means our doom . The jumbling of atoms makes them " unavailable matter ...
Page 177
... mean forcing everyone's life to fit some grand scheme ; it chiefly means avoiding enslavement and death . Yet , like the achievement of a utopian dream , it will bring a future of won- ders . Given these life - and - death problems and ...
... mean forcing everyone's life to fit some grand scheme ; it chiefly means avoiding enslavement and death . Yet , like the achievement of a utopian dream , it will bring a future of won- ders . Given these life - and - death problems and ...
Page 263
... means of hollow fibers a nanometer or two in diameter , each carrying a carbyne signaling rod of the sort used ... means of cell repair machines will require that we learn about cell structures before we repair them , but what we learn ...
... means of hollow fibers a nanometer or two in diameter , each carrying a carbyne signaling rod of the sort used ... means of cell repair machines will require that we learn about cell structures before we repair them , but what we learn ...
Contents
Engines of Construction | 3 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 39 |
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