予見者たち：未来を拓く宇宙基地、ナノテクを生んだエリート科学者たち The Visioneers : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

予見者たち：未来を拓く宇宙基地、ナノテクを生んだエリート科学者たち<br>The Visioneers : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

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予見者たち：未来を拓く宇宙基地、ナノテクを生んだエリート科学者たち
The Visioneers : How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

McCray, W. Patrick

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Princeton University Press（2012/12発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.／サイズ 13 halftones
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780691139838
DDC分類 509.045

基本説明

Highlights the importance of radical new ideas that inspire us to support cutting-edge research into tomorrow's technologies.

Full Description

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.

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Visioneering Technological Futures 1 Chapter 1 Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? 20 Chapter 2 The Inspiration of Limits 40 Chapter 3 Building Castles in the Sky 73 Chapter 4 Omnificent 113 Chapter 5 Could Small Be Beautiful? 146 Chapter 6 California Dreaming 183 Chapter 7 Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition 222 Chapter 8 Visioneering's Value 258 A Note on Sources 277 Notes 281 Index 325