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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The resulting nanotechnology can help life spread beyond Earth — a step
without parallel since life spread beyond the seas. It can help mind emerge in
machines — a step without parallel since mind emerged in primates. And it can
let our ...
The resulting nanotechnology can help life spread beyond Earth — a step
without parallel since life spread beyond the seas. It can help mind emerge in
machines — a step without parallel since mind emerged in primates. And it can
let our ...
Page 36
patterns imitated were, on the whole, of value — their bearers, after all, had
survived to spread them. Memes themselves, though, face their own matters of "
life" and "death": as replicators, they evolve solely to survive and spread. Like
viruses ...
patterns imitated were, on the whole, of value — their bearers, after all, had
survived to spread them. Memes themselves, though, face their own matters of "
life" and "death": as replicators, they evolve solely to survive and spread. Like
viruses ...
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Green plants have now spread to stations in orbit; if we prosper, Earth's plants
will spread to the stars. Organisms spread as far as they can, then a bit farther.
Some fail and die, but the successful survive and spread farther yet. Settlers
bound ...
Green plants have now spread to stations in orbit; if we prosper, Earth's plants
will spread to the stars. Organisms spread as far as they can, then a bit farther.
Some fail and die, but the successful survive and spread farther yet. Settlers
bound ...
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Engines of Construction | 3 |
The Principles of Change | 21 |
Predicting and Projecting | 39 |
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