Our Molecular Future How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World

Name: Our Molecular Future How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World
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ISBN: 9781573929929

ISBN-10: 1573929921

ISBN-13: 9781573929929

Edition: 2002

Authors: Douglas Mulhall

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What Alvin Toffler's Future Shock was to the 20th century, Our Molecular Future will be to the 21st century. What will happen to our jobs, health care, and investments when the molecular revolution hits? How might artificial intelligence transform our lives? How can molecular technologies help us cope with climate changes, earthquakes, and other extreme natural threats? Our Molecular Future explores some intriguing possibilities that answer these questions and many others. Douglas Mulhall describes the exponential changes that are about to be wrought by the nanotechnology and robotic revolutions, which promise to reduce the scale of computing to the nanometre, a billionth of a meter, while…

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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 5.61" wide x 8.37" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


About the Title


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Collision of Futures



The Molecular Age



Singularity



Molecular Building Blocks



What Comes First and What Does It Mean for Each of Us?



What Comes Next? Megatrends That Could Alter Our Lives



The Nanoecology Revolution



Reviving Tropical Islands



Who's Driving the Molecular Machine?



Nature's Time Bombs



Are We Getting More or Less Vulnerable?



Shaking Up Tokyo and the Globalized Economy



So, You're Bored by Doomsday?



An Elephant in the Room of Environmentalism



Lost Messages from Ancient Times



Blueprints for a Molecular Defense



Why Go There?



Tools for Defusing Time Bombs



Lessons from Tokyo-Learning to Predict the Big One



The Long Valley Caldera Defense-Avoiding a Dark Age



How to Avert Armageddon-Have an Asteroid for Lunch



Getting from Here to There



The Right Questions



Overcoming Cultural Amnesia



Bypassing the Road to Hell



Using Open Source



Redesigning Democracy for Artificial Intelligence



Liberating Each One of Us


Conclusion



Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics



Excerpt from Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology


Notes


A Brief Sampling for the Scientifically Inclined Reader


Index