Engines of creationFocusing on the breakthrough field of molecular engineering--a new technology enabling scientists to build tiny machines atom by atom--the author offers projections on how this technological revolution will affect the future of computer science, space tra |
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What is possible, what is achievable, and what is desirable? First, where
hardware is concerned, natural law sets limits to the possible. Because
assemblers will open a path to those limits, understanding assemblers is a key to
understanding ...
What is possible, what is achievable, and what is desirable? First, where
hardware is concerned, natural law sets limits to the possible. Because
assemblers will open a path to those limits, understanding assemblers is a key to
understanding ...
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neering knowledge form a map of the limits of the possible. Though still blurred
and incomplete, this map outlines the permanent limits within which the future
must move. Second, evolutionary principles determine what paths lie open, and
set ...
neering knowledge form a map of the limits of the possible. Though still blurred
and incomplete, this map outlines the permanent limits within which the future
must move. Second, evolutionary principles determine what paths lie open, and
set ...
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The strongest materials possible will have roughly ten times the strength of
today's strongest steel wire. (The strongest material for making a cable appears
to be carbyne, a form of carbon having atoms arranged in straight chains.) It
seems that ...
The strongest materials possible will have roughly ten times the strength of
today's strongest steel wire. (The strongest material for making a cable appears
to be carbyne, a form of carbon having atoms arranged in straight chains.) It
seems that ...
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Contents
Engines of Construction | 3 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 39 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Engines of creation |
| Author | K. Eric Drexler |
| Publisher | Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0385199724, 9780385199728 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › High technology Science / Applied Sciences Technology & Engineering / General Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects Twentieth century Twentieth century - Forecasts Twentieth century/ Forecasts |
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