Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler

Author:K. Eric Drexler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 0101-01-01T02:00:00+00:00

THE LIMITS TO GROWTH

(Chapter 10)

The Structure of the Vacuum

Will Physics Again be Upended?

The Limits to Hardware

Entropy: A Limit to Energy Use

The Limits to Resources

Malthus

Will Someone Stop Us?

Growth Within Limits

Views of Limits

References for Chapter 10

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The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. - T. H. HUXLEY

IN THE LAST CENTURY we have developed aircraft, spacecraft, nuclear power, and computers. In the next we will develop assemblers, replicators, automated engineering, cheap spaceflight, cell repair machines, and much more. This series of breakthroughs may suggest that the technology race will advance without limit. In this view, we will break through all conceivable barriers, rushing off into the infinite unknown - but this view seems false.

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