عنوان

The visioneers :

شابک

1400844681

شابک

9781400844685

شابک اشتباه

0691139830

شابک اشتباه

9780691139838

عنوان اصلي

The visioneers :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future /

نام نخستين پديدآور

W. Patrick McCray.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2013.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2013

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

"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"--

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

22573/ctt1b30qf

شماره انبار

F3A96A27-2882-4876-874B-58C3A987B780

عنوان

Visioneers.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780691139838

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Visionaries.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Nanoscience.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Nanostructures.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science.

موضوع مستند نشده

Visionaries.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 034000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI034000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI050000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI098000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McCray, Patrick, (W. Patrick)

تاريخ عمليات

20200822122737.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y