Book Description
Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter -- to program matter -- with atomic precision will utterly change the economic, ecological, and cultural fabric of our lives. This book, which is accessible to a broad audience while providing references to the technical literature, presents a wide range of potential applications of this new material technology. The first chapter introduces the basic concepts of molecular engineering and demonstrates that several mutually reinforcing trends in current research are leading directly into a world of surprisingly powerful molecular machines. Nine original essays on specific applications follow the introductory chapter. The first section presents applications of nanotechnology that interact directly with the molecular systems of the human body. The second presents applications that function, for the most part, outside the body. The final section details the mechanisms of a universal human-machine interface and the operation of an extremely high resolution display system.


Book Info
Focuses on applications that work, for the most part, inside living bodies. Also presents a wide range of applications that generally function outside human bodies. DLC: Nanotechnology.


About the Author
BC Crandall is cofounder and Vice President of Prime Arithmetics, Inc., and the Director of Molecular Realities.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"In clear and compelling language, Nanotechnology describes the ideas and techniques that are creating a new domain of science and technology." -- Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

"There are many things that science and technology have promised the human race, and many of these promises have been kept. Nanotechnology raises the ante, exceeding almost every earlier promise a billion fold. Nanotechnology, Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance gives a clear and nontechnical tour of things we might expect." -- Vernor Vinge, Associate Professor, Department of Math Sciences, San Diego State University

"I found this to be a very enjoyable and thought-provoking book looking into some of the more audacious directions that nanotechnology might go, with a good balance between straight design analysis, 'what if' musings, and acknowledgement of associated policy problems. It also would be a good introduction for non-U.S. researchers as a cross-section of what is being talked about at present by certain futurists and should spark off quite a few ideas here in Japan." -- Dr. Tanya C. Sienko, Researcher, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Tokyo, Japan.

"BC Crandall's Nanotechnology is both shocking and authoritative - a feast for those who truly enjoy a glimpse of the future!" -- Greg Bear, author of Blood Music and Queen of Angels

Technology is becoming molecularly precise. Nanotechnology, otherwise known as molecular engineering, will soon create effective machines as small as DNA. This capacity to manipulate matter -- to program matter -- with atomic precision will utterly change the economic, ecological, and cultural fabric of our lives. This book, which is accessible to a broad audience while providing references to the technical literature, presents a wide range of potential applications of this new material technology.

The first chapter introduces the basic concepts of molecular engineering and demonstrates that several mutually reinforcing trends in current research are leading directly into a world of surprisingly powerful molecular machines. Nine original essays on specific applications follow the introductory chapter. The first section presents applications of nanotechnology that interact directly with the molecular systems of the human body. The second presents applications that function, for the most part, outside the body. The final section details the mechanisms of a universal human-machine interface and the operation of an extremely high resolution display system.