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Flying cars, space travel for everyone, the elimination of poverty and hunger, and powerful new tools to combat disease and even flight aging- these are some of the amazing predicted developments of nanotechnology, the emerging science of designing and building machines at the molecular and atomic levels. Will this new scientific revolution be for better or worse? Some commentators have described utopias; others have prophesied disaster. find out the likely reality from an expert, Dr. J. Storrs Hall in this absorbing insider`s guide to the future. Hall--- a leading researcher on the frontlers of the frontiers of nanotechnology who has desinged for NASA describes nanotechnology in a very accessible way so that anyone can understand what it`s about its extraordinary possiblities and its obviouslimitations he puts it into historica context explaning how previous technological developments have shaped our lives, how nanotechnology fils into the historica trends for technologies ranging from motors to medicine. and how the continuation of these trends, with nanotechnology as a strong determining factor, will profoundly affct life in the coming years. ISBN : 8170793102
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