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"Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially."
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| | Nano:
The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology
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| | by Ed Regis
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ZIN Product Number: 10260817
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 Format: Paperback, 325 pages
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Company
ISBN: 0788157140
Release Date: Jan 7, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
"Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman was the first to espouse thetheory of molecular technology in 1959. It was 20 years later that . . . {K.Eric Drexler} became fascinated with the idea of manipulating atoms and molecules to form tiny machines, which in turn could manufacture products to eliminate hunger, sickness, and poverty. When he published his ideas in the September 1981 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, he became the leading proponent . . . of 'nanotechnology' (a word he coined to describe this process). . . . {Regis traces the} history of nanotechnology intertwined with an account of the life and times of Drexler." (LibrJ) Chapter bibliographies. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
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.
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An acclaimed science writer reveals an imminent technological revolution--a new, atomic-level alchemy, conceived by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman--and introduces readers to the visionary engineers and scientists behind it. 15 photos.
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