ISBN:
9781610391139
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 340 pages
,
graph. Darst
,
25 cm
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Nanotechnology
;
Nanotechnology Social aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Technological forecasting
;
Social prediction
;
Nanotechnologie
;
Gesellschaft
Description / Table of Contents:
A Necessary Preface -- AN UNEXPECTED WORLD -- Bits, Atoms, and Radical Abundance -- A 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 -- Asking a Different Question about Technology -- THE TECHNOLOGY OF RADICAL ABUNDANCE -- The Foundations of Radical Abundance -- The Products of Radical Abundance -- THE TRAJECTORY OF TECHNOLOGY -- The Technologies -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... -- How to Reach Strategic Objectives -- BENDING THE ARC OF THE FUTURE -- Transforming the Material Basis of Civilization -- Managing a Catastrophic Success -- Prospects for Radical Security -- A Modest Agenda for Action -- Appendix: Roads to Revolution.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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