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Our molecular future : how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform our world / Douglas Mulhall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.Description: 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1573929921 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 21
LOC classification:
  • T174.7 .M85 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: PART 1. THE MOLECULAR AGE -- Chapter 1. Singularity 27 -- Chapter 2. Molecular Building Blocks 30 -- Chapter 3. What Comes First and What Does It Mean for Each of Us? 52 -- Chapter 4. What Comes Next? -- Megatrends That Could Alter Our Lives 81 -- Chapter 5. The Nanoecology Revolution 113 -- Chapter 6. Reviving Tropical Islands 120 -- Chapter 7. Who's Driving the Molecular Machine? 124 -- PART 2. NATURE'S TIME BOMBS -- Chapter 8. Are We Getting More or Less Vulnerable? 143 -- Chapter 9. Shaking Up Tokyo and the Globalized Economy 150 -- Chapter 10. So, You're Bored by Doomsday? 156 -- Chapter 11. An Elephant in the Room of Environmentalism 174 -- Chapter 12. Lost Messages from Ancient Times 180 -- PART 3. BLUEPRINTS FOR A -- MOLECULAR DEFENSE -- Chapter 13. Why Go There? 189 -- Chapter 14. Tools for Defusing Time Bombs 191 -- Chapter 15. Lessons from Tokyo-Learning to Predict the Big One 217 -- Chapter 16. The Long Valley Caldera Defense-Avoiding a Dark Age 221 -- Chapter 17. How to Avert Armageddon-Have an Asteroid for Lunch 226 -- PART 4. GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE -- Chapter 18. The Right Questions 233 -- Chapter 19. Overcoming Cultural Amnesia 255 -- Chapter 20. Bypassing the Road to Hell 263 -- Chapter 21. Using Open Source 282 -- Chapter 22. Redesigning Democracy for Artificial Intelligence 286 -- Chapter 23. Liberating Each One of Us 293.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART 1. THE MOLECULAR AGE -- Chapter 1. Singularity 27 -- Chapter 2. Molecular Building Blocks 30 -- Chapter 3. What Comes First and What Does It Mean for Each of Us? 52 -- Chapter 4. What Comes Next? -- Megatrends That Could Alter Our Lives 81 -- Chapter 5. The Nanoecology Revolution 113 -- Chapter 6. Reviving Tropical Islands 120 -- Chapter 7. Who's Driving the Molecular Machine? 124 -- PART 2. NATURE'S TIME BOMBS -- Chapter 8. Are We Getting More or Less Vulnerable? 143 -- Chapter 9. Shaking Up Tokyo and the Globalized Economy 150 -- Chapter 10. So, You're Bored by Doomsday? 156 -- Chapter 11. An Elephant in the Room of Environmentalism 174 -- Chapter 12. Lost Messages from Ancient Times 180 -- PART 3. BLUEPRINTS FOR A -- MOLECULAR DEFENSE -- Chapter 13. Why Go There? 189 -- Chapter 14. Tools for Defusing Time Bombs 191 -- Chapter 15. Lessons from Tokyo-Learning to Predict the Big One 217 -- Chapter 16. The Long Valley Caldera Defense-Avoiding a Dark Age 221 -- Chapter 17. How to Avert Armageddon-Have an Asteroid for Lunch 226 -- PART 4. GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE -- Chapter 18. The Right Questions 233 -- Chapter 19. Overcoming Cultural Amnesia 255 -- Chapter 20. Bypassing the Road to Hell 263 -- Chapter 21. Using Open Source 282 -- Chapter 22. Redesigning Democracy for Artificial Intelligence 286 -- Chapter 23. Liberating Each One of Us 293.

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