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- catalog abstract ""Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by companies ranging from Levi Strauss to IBM and the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in laboratories at MIT, Harvard, Sun Microsystems, and elsewhere are currently creating arrays of microscopic devices called "quantum dots" that are capable of acting like programmable atoms. They can be configured electronically to replicate the properties of any known atom and then can be changed, as fast as an electrical signal can travel, to have the properties of a different atom. Soon it will be possible not only to engineer into solid matter such unnatural properties as variable magnetism, programmable flavors, or centuple bonds far stronger than diamond, but also to change these properties at will. Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead. The possibilities are truly magical."--Front flap.".
- catalog contributor b12792113.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by companies ranging from Levi Strauss to IBM and the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in laboratories at MIT, Harvard, Sun Microsystems, and elsewhere are currently creating arrays of microscopic devices called "quantum dots" that are capable of acting like programmable atoms. They can be configured electronically to replicate the properties of any known atom and then can be changed, as fast as an electrical signal can travel, to have the properties of a different atom. Soon it will be possible not only to engineer into solid matter such unnatural properties as variable magnetism, programmable flavors, or centuple bonds far stronger than diamond, but also to change these properties at will. Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead. The possibilities are truly magical."--Front flap.".
- catalog description "1 Clarke's Law and the Need for Magic 1 -- 2 Standing Waves 9 -- 3 The Play of Light 39 -- 4 Thermodynamics and the Limits of the Possible 61 -- 5 Magnetism and Mechanics 89 -- 6 The Point-and-Click Promise 113 -- 7 The Programmable City 133 -- 8 The Future Tense 151 -- Afterword: Accidental Demigods? 171 -- Appendix B Patent Application 185.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 222 p. :".
- catalog identifier "046504428X".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog subject "620/.5/0112 21".
- catalog subject "Nanotechnology Forecasting.".
- catalog subject "Quantum electronics Forecasting.".
- catalog subject "T174.7 .M38 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Clarke's Law and the Need for Magic 1 -- 2 Standing Waves 9 -- 3 The Play of Light 39 -- 4 Thermodynamics and the Limits of the Possible 61 -- 5 Magnetism and Mechanics 89 -- 6 The Point-and-Click Promise 113 -- 7 The Programmable City 133 -- 8 The Future Tense 151 -- Afterword: Accidental Demigods? 171 -- Appendix B Patent Application 185.".
- catalog title "Hacking matter : levitating chairs, quantum mirages, and the infinite weirdness of programmable atoms / Wil McCarthy.".
- catalog type "text".