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The Visioneers

How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
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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 p

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
June 6th, 2017
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
13 halftones. 4 line illus.
Pages
368
Dimensions
152x235x21
ISBN-13
9780691176291
Product ID
26250173

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