Nano! Tapa blanda - 1997

Transworld Publishers Ltd, 1/2/1997 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 1.0236 7.6378 5.0394.

Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1997 The back cover says: "This is really gripping stuff, with all the hallmarks of a great sci-fi story' Time Out. At some point in the not-so-distant future every home will have its own private Meat Machine, an appliance about the size of a microwave oven. You'll open the door, shovel in some waste materials - grass clippings, old bicycle tyres and the like - then close the door again and fiddle with the controls. Some hours later, out will roll a piece of fresh prime beef. Science fiction? Pseudoscience? On the contrary, the Meat Machine will be brought to us by a serious new science known as nanotechnology. Based on the thinking of, among others, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, and pioneered by the remarkable Eric Drexler, it promises nothing less than complete control over the structure of matter. At its heart is the creation of an empire of tiny programmed robots called assemblers, so small that they will be… Leer más