The Visioneers : : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future / / W. Patrick McCray.
In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met u...
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McCray, W. Patrick, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Visioneers : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future / W. Patrick McCray. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (368 p.) : 13 halftones. 4 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures -- Chapter 1. Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? -- Chapter 2. The Inspiration of Limits -- Chapter 3. Building Castles in the Sky -- Chapter 4. Omnificent -- Chapter 5. Could Small Be Beautiful? -- Chapter 6. California Dreaming -- Chapter 7. Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition -- Chapter 8. Visioneering's Value -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies could transform society as humans mastered the ability to create new worlds, undertook atomic-scale engineering, and, if truly successful, overcame their own biological limits. The Visioneers tells the story of how these scientists and the communities they fostered imagined, designed, and popularized speculative technologies such as space colonies and nanotechnologies. Patrick McCray traces how these visioneers blended countercultural ideals with hard science, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, and unbridled optimism about the future. He shows how they built networks that communicated their ideas to writers, politicians, and corporate leaders. But the visioneers were not immune to failure--or to the lures of profit, celebrity, and hype. O'Neill and Drexler faced difficulty funding their work and overcoming colleagues' skepticism, and saw their ideas co-opted and transformed by Timothy Leary, the scriptwriters of Star Trek, and many others. Ultimately, both men struggled to overcome stigma and ostracism as they tried to unshackle their visioneering from pejorative labels like "fringe" and "pseudoscience.? The Visioneers provides a balanced look at the successes and pitfalls they encountered. The book exposes the dangers of promotion--oversimplification, misuse, and misunderstanding--that can plague exploratory science. But above all, it highlights the importance of radical new ideas that inspire us to support cutting-edge research into tomorrow's technologies.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Science History. Visionaries. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh American culture. Eric Drexler. Gerard O'Neill. K. Eric Drexler. Omni magazine. asteroids. atomic-scale engineering. biotechnology. countercultural ideals. cutting-edge research. existential crisis. exploration. exploratory science. future technology. human settlement. lunar factory. microelectronics. nanotechnology. pseudoscience. science. solar sails. space colonies. space colony. space settlement. space settlements. technology. visioneering. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691139838 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844685?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844685 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400844685.jpg |
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