Title Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientsts Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a limitless Future Author(s) W. Patrick McCray Edition eBook Publication Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013. Description xii, 351p. : Princeton Scholarship Online - Oxford University Press Abstract Note 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. ISBN,Price 9780691139838 : US $29.95(HB) Classification 001.18 Keyword(s) 1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 3. EBOOK - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 4. EXOPLANETS 5. NANOTECHNOLOGY 6. Princeton Scholarship Online 7. SPACE COLONIES Item Type Book Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location 024733   MCC/024733  On Shelf     OB1411   001.18/MCC/  On Shelf     +Copy Specific Information