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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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