The Visioneers : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future /

In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCray, W. Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Science > History.
Visionaries.
SCIENCE / History.
American culture.
Eric Drexler.
Gerard O'Neill.
K. Eric Drexler.
Omni magazine.
asteroids.
atomic-scale engineering.
biotechnology.
countercultural ideals.
cutting-edge research.
existential crisis.
exploration.
exploratory science.
future technology.
human settlement.
lunar factory.
microelectronics.
nanotechnology.
pseudoscience.
science.
solar sails.
space colonies.
space colony.
space settlement.
space settlements.
technology.
visioneering.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures
  • Chapter 1. Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth?
  • Chapter 2. The Inspiration of Limits
  • Chapter 3. Building Castles in the Sky
  • Chapter 4. Omnificent
  • Chapter 5. Could Small Be Beautiful?
  • Chapter 6. California Dreaming
  • Chapter 7. Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition
  • Chapter 8. Visioneering's Value
  • A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Index

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