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• catalog abstract "It's the ultimate technology: nanotechnology - the attempt to build ordinary objects from the atoms up, molecule by molecule. So named because its building blocks are the smallest pieces of matter, nanotechnology will give us complete control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build any substance or structure permitted by the laws of nature. Placing atoms as if they were bricks, nano-machines could turn grass clippings into prime sirloin - directly, without cows. They could turn coal into diamond, and sheets of diamond into rocket engines. Suitably reprogrammed, the tiny machines could repair all of your body's ailing cells. Science fiction? Alchemy? Craziness? Actually, scientists have already isolated individual atoms and moved them at will, even using them to spell out words on a scale so small that the entire Encyclopedia Britannica can be written on the head of a pin. Conceived by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feyman and pioneered by the remarkable K. Eric Drexler, who earned the first Ph. D. in the field he created at MIT more than a decade ago, nanotechnology is astoundingly near. In Nano, acclaimed science writer Ed Regis introduces us to the visionary engineers and scientists - as well as the critics - of this imminent technological revolution and shows how their work may soon begin changing the world as we know it. With fleets of molecular assemblers churning out essential commodities without human labor, the world economy would be transformed, famine and poverty banished forever. With cell-repair devices coursing through the human body, aging could be postponed, even halted, common diseases eradicated permanently. But would this new world be a return to Eden or a rash step into a dangerous future? Programmed differently, those same molecular machines could become agents more potent than the deadliest viruses.".
• catalog contributor b7771800.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-314) and index.".
• catalog description "It's the ultimate technology: nanotechnology - the attempt to build ordinary objects from the atoms up, molecule by molecule. So named because its building blocks are the smallest pieces of matter, nanotechnology will give us complete control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build any substance or structure permitted by the laws of nature. Placing atoms as if they were bricks, nano-machines could turn grass clippings into prime sirloin - directly, without cows. They could turn coal into diamond, and sheets of diamond into rocket engines. Suitably reprogrammed, the tiny machines could repair all of your body's ailing cells. Science fiction? Alchemy? Craziness? Actually, scientists have already isolated individual atoms and moved them at will, even using them to spell out words on a scale so small that the entire Encyclopedia Britannica can be written on the head of a pin. Conceived by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feyman and pioneered by the remarkable K. Eric Drexler, who earned the first Ph. D. in the field he created at MIT more than a decade ago, nanotechnology is astoundingly near. In Nano, acclaimed science writer Ed Regis introduces us to the visionary engineers and scientists - as well as the critics - of this imminent technological revolution and shows how their work may soon begin changing the world as we know it. With fleets of molecular assemblers churning out essential commodities without human labor, the world economy would be transformed, famine and poverty banished forever. With cell-repair devices coursing through the human body, aging could be postponed, even halted, common diseases eradicated permanently. But would this new world be a return to Eden or a rash step into a dangerous future? Programmed differently, those same molecular machines could become agents more potent than the deadliest viruses.".
• catalog description "The kT irony -- The old technology -- The world-class auto-da-fe -- "Feynman was robbed" -- Eternity and clouds -- Richard comes to Chris and Eric's -- Brother Eric's nanotech revival -- Tiny tale gets grand -- Astrid and priscilla -- Monotony, hate, and utopia -- "Three little gears" -- Captain future -- "Are molecules sacred?" -- The Greek chorus of woe -- "Good luck stopping it" -- Sunday afternoon in the American suburbs.".
• catalog extent "325 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0316738581".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Little, Brown,".
• catalog subject "1996 F-342".
• catalog subject "620.4 20".
• catalog subject "Molecular Structure.".
• catalog subject "Nanotechnology.".
• catalog subject "T 174.7 R335n 1995".
• catalog subject "T174.7 .R44 1995".
• catalog subject "Technology trends.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The kT irony -- The old technology -- The world-class auto-da-fe -- "Feynman was robbed" -- Eternity and clouds -- Richard comes to Chris and Eric's -- Brother Eric's nanotech revival -- Tiny tale gets grand -- Astrid and priscilla -- Monotony, hate, and utopia -- "Three little gears" -- Captain future -- "Are molecules sacred?" -- The Greek chorus of woe -- "Good luck stopping it" -- Sunday afternoon in the American suburbs.".
• catalog title "Nano : the emerging science of nanotechnology : remaking the world-molecule by molecule / Ed Regis.".
• catalog type "text".