The Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
(Sprache: Englisch)
Subtitled "How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future". An exploration of using space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion.
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Subtitled "How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future". An exploration of using space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Visioneers “
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures 1 Chapter 1 Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? 20 Chapter 2 The Inspiration of Limits 40 Chapter 3 Building Castles in the Sky 73 Chapter 4 Omnificent 113 Chapter 5 Could Small Be Beautiful? 146 Chapter 6 California Dreaming 183 Chapter 7 Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition 222 Chapter 8 Visioneering's Value 258 A Note on Sources 277 Notes 281 Index 325
Autoren-Porträt von W. Patrick McCray
W. Patrick McCray is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age (Princeton) and Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: W. Patrick McCray
- 2012, 368 Seiten, 17 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,3 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691139830
- ISBN-13: 9780691139838
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Visioneers “
"Having been a cheerleader for the grand schemes recounted in this book, I'm happy to be a cheerleader for the book itself. It is accurate, thorough, and insightful. Since this century is certain to produce many new cadres of visioneers, the book will lend perspective on how best to critique and harness their dreams."--Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline
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