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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2013.
©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.