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The visioneers : how a group of elit...

McCray, Patrick

The visioneers : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future

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副題名:	how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future
作者:	McCrayPatrick,
出版地:	Princeton
出版者:	Princeton University Press;
出版年:	c2013
面頁冊數:	xii, 351 p.ill. : 24 cm.;
標題:	Science - History -
標題:	Visionaries -
標題:	Technology -
標題:	Technology Transfer -
標題:	Nanotechnology -
標題:	Forecasting -
標題:	Science - history -
摘要註:	"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. Patrick McCray traces how these visioneers blended countercultural ideals with hard science, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, and unbridled optimism about the future. He shows how they built networks that communicated their ideas to writers, politicians, and corporate leaders. But the visioneers were not immune to failure--or to the lures of profit, celebrity, and hype. O'Neill and Drexler faced difficulty funding their work and overcoming colleagues' skepticism, and saw their ideas co-opted and transformed by Timothy Leary, the scriptwriters of Star Trek, and many others. Ultimately, both men struggled to overcome stigma and ostracism as they tried to unshackle their visioneering from pejorative labels like "fringe" and "pseudoscience." The Visioneers provides a balanced look at the successes and pitfalls they encountered. The book exposes the dangers of promotion--oversimplification, misuse, and misunderstanding--that can plague exploratory science. But above all, it highlights the importance of radical new ideas that inspire us to support cutting-edge research into tomorrow's technologies"--
ISBN:	9780691139838
內容註:	Introduction: visioneering technological futures -- Utopia or oblivion for Spaceship Earth? -- The inspiration of limits -- Building castles in the sky -- Omnificent -- Could small be beautiful? -- California dreaming -- Confirmation, benediction, and inquisition -- Visioneering's value

The visioneers : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future
McCray, Patrick

The visioneers : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future / W. Patrick McCray - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013. - xii, 351 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm..
Introduction: visioneering technological futures -- Utopia or oblivion for Spaceship Earth? -- The inspiration of limits -- Building castles in the sky -- Omnificent -- Could small be beautiful? -- California dreaming -- Confirmation, benediction, and inquisition -- Visioneering's value.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-323) and index.
ISBN 9780691139838ISBN 0691139830
ScienceVisionariesTechnologyTechnology TransferNanotechnologyForecastingScience -- History -- history

The visioneers : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future
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