Author: K. Eric DrexlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781857024869
Category : High technology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Engines of Creation
Author: Eric DrexlerPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385199732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.
Author: Louis ShalakoThe End of the World
Author: John LesliePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415140430
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
For thousands of years, the human race has been fascinated and haunted by the idea of the Apocalypse. But it is only now, as we approach the end of the second millennium, that we are beginning to understand the scientific possibilities and real risks that support this primeval fear. This book persuasively explains and analyzes numerous scientifically supported dangers to our world to illustrate that the risk of human extinction is very real.
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society
Author: David H. GustonPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412969875
Category : Nanotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 1025
Book Description
Because of their far-reaching consequences, truly transformative technologies always generate controversy. This encyclopedia covers the ethical, legal, policy, social, economic, and business issues raised by nanoscience.
The Pillars of Creation
Author: Martin BeechPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319487752
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book explores the mechanics of star formation, the process by which matter pulls together and creates new structures. Written for science enthusiasts, the author presents an accessible explanation of how stars are born from the interstellar medium and giant molecular clouds. Stars produce the chemicals that lead to life, and it is they that have enabled the conditions for planets to form and life to emerge. Although the Big Bang provided the spark of initiation, the primordial universe that it sired was born hopelessly sterile. It is only through the continued recycling of the interstellar medium, star formation, and stellar evolution that the universe has been animated beyond a chaotic mess of elementary atomic particles, radiation, dark matter, dark energy, and expanding spacetime. Using the Milky Way and the Eagle Nebula in particular as case studies, Beech follows every step of this amazing process.
Necroculture
Author: Charles ThorpePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137583037
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm’s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the ideological reflection and material manifestation of this basic feature of capitalism: the rule of dead capital over living labor. The author argues that necroculture represents the subsumption of the world by vampire capital.
Molecular Computing
Author: Nicholas G. RambidiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3211996990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The question whether molecular primitives can prove to be real alternatives to contemporary semiconductor means or effective supplements extending greatly possibilities of information technologies is addressed. Molecular primitives and circuitry for information processing devices are also discussed. Investigations in molecular based computing devices were initiated in the early 1970s in the hopes for an increase in the integration level and processing speed. Real progress proved unfeasible into the 1980 ́s. However, recently, important and promising results were achieved. The elaboration of operational 160-kilobit molecular electronic memory patterned 1011 bits per square centimeter in the end of 90 ́s were the first timid steps of information processing further development. Subsequent advances beyond these developments are presented and discussed. This work provides useful knowledge to anyone working in molecular based information processing.
The Doll
Author: Nickolay PopovPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5042437266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Dear reader, I offer you three small stories. They are different in content, so finished reading one of them, it is better to make a small pause, in order to think, to philosophize.Out of all placed here short stories I want to highlight the one: The Doll. I want to add that the pamphlet (The Doll) can be called a warning to humanity since wonderful Engines of Creation can be easily turned into Engines of Destruction.
Fantastic Voyage
Author: Ray KurzweilPublisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781579549541
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Presents information about aging and illness, offers a program of diet and lifestyle choices allowing people to live longer and avoid sickness, and examines current and future roles for biotechnology and nanotechnology in health.
