Engines of Creation
Author : K. Eric Drexler
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1996
Category : High technology
ISBN : 9781857024869
Author : K. Eric Drexler
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1996
Category : High technology
ISBN : 9781857024869
Author : Eric Drexler
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1987-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0385199732
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 Shalako
Publisher : Long Cool One Books
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0992102669
Short stories that pack a punch, including science fiction, fantasy, satire, humour, and a strangely uplifting mild horror. A collection.
Author : Jonathan Blossom
Publisher : Wait Groupe Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781878739902
Now programmers can learn the secrets of creating a real-time, interactive, virtual reality walkthrough program on Macintosh. This guide takes the reader through the complete development of "Gossamer" and shows how to use the Gossamer engine to journey and move about in 3D worlds.
Author : John Leslie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415140430
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.
Author : David H. Guston
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nanotechnology
ISBN : 1412969875
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.
Author : Martin Beech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319487752
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.
Author : Charles Thorpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137583037
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.
Author : Nicholas G. Rambidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3211996990
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.
Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781579549541
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.