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Radical abundance : how a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilization / K. Eric Drexler.

by Drexler, K. Eric.

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New York : BBS PublicAffairs, c2013.

Nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology -- Social aspects.

Technology and civilization.

Technological forecasting.

Social prediction.

9781610391139 (HC) :

1610391136 (HC)

xiv, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

A Necessary Prelude -- AN UNEXPECTED WORLD -- Atoms, Bits, and Radical Abundance -- An Early Journey of Ideas -- From Molecules to Nanosystems -- THE REVOLUTION IN CONTEXT -- Three Revolutions, and a Fourth -- The Look and Feel of the Nanoscale World -- The Ways We Make Things -- EXPLORING DEEP TECHNOLOGY -- Science and the Timeless Landscape of Technology -- The Clashing Concerns of Engineering and Science -- Exploring the Potential of Technology -- THE TECHNOLOGY OF RADICAL ABUNDANCE -- The Machinery of Radical Abundance -- The Products of Radical Abundance -- THE TRAJECTORY OF TECHNOLOGY -- Today's Technologies of Atomic Precision -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future ... -- How to Accelerate Progress -- BENDING THE ARC OF THE FUTURE -- Transforming the Material Basis of Civilization -- Managing a Catastrophic Success -- Security for an Unconventional Future -- Changing our Conversation about the Future -- Appendices.

The founding father of nanotechnology predicts the coming changes to the economy and the environment as more manufacturing is done with extreme precision on the atomic level at a significantly lower cost.

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