A Necessary Preface -- AN UNEXPECTED WORLD -- Bits, Atoms, and Radical Abundance -- A Journey of Ideas -- From Molecules to Nanosystems -- THE REVOLUTION IN CONTEXT -- Three Revolutions, and a Fourth -- The Look and Feel of the Nanoscale World -- The Ways We Make Things -- EXPLORING DEEP TECHNOLOGY -- Science and the Timeless Landscape of Technology -- The Clashing Concerns of Engineering and Science -- Asking a Different Question about Technology -- THE TECHNOLOGY OF RADICAL ABUNDANCE -- The Foundations of Radical Abundance -- The Products of Radical Abundance -- THE TRAJECTORY OF TECHNOLOGY -- The Technologies -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future ... -- How to Reach Strategic Objectives -- BENDING THE ARC OF THE FUTURE -- Transforming the Material Basis of Civilization -- Managing a Catastrophic Success -- Prospects for Radical Security -- A Modest Agenda for Action -- Appendix: Roads to Revolution.
Summary:
The founding father of nanotechnology predicts the coming changes to the economy and the environment as more manufacturing is done with extreme precision on the atomic level at a significantly lower cost.
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