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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures
  • Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth?
  • The Inspiration of Limits
  • Building Castles in the Sky
  • Omnificent
  • Could Small Be Beautiful?
  • California Dreaming
  • Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition
  • Visioneering's Value
  • A Note on Sources.