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Our molecular future : how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform our world / Douglas Mulhall.

by Mulhall, Douglas.

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Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.

Nanotechnology.

Artificial intelligence.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2002021992.html

1573929921 (alk. paper)

9781573929929 (alk. paper)

392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: Collision of futures -- Pt. 1. The molecular age -- Singularity -- Molecular building blocks -- What comes first and what does it mean for each of us? -- What comes next? Megatrends that could alter our lives -- Nanoecology revolution -- Reviving tropical islands -- Who's driving the molecular machine? -- Pt. 2. Nature's time bombs -- Are we getting more or less vulnerable? -- Shaking up Tokyo and the globalized economy -- So, you're bored by doomsday? -- Elephant in the room of environmentalism -- Lost messages from ancient times -- Pt. 3. Blueprints for a molecular defense -- Why go there? -- Tools for defusing time bombs -- Lessons from Tokyo - learning to predict the big one -- Long Valley Caldera defense - avoiding a dark age -- How to avert Armageddon - have an asteroid for lunch -- Pt. 4. Getting from here to there -- Right questions -- Overcoming cultural amnesia -- Bypassing the road to hell -- Using open source -- Redesigning democracy for artificial intelligence -- Liberating each one of us.

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