Hacking Matter: Invisible Clothes, Levitating Chairs and the Ultimate Killer App - Hardcover

McCarthy, Wil

 
9780465044283: Hacking Matter: Invisible Clothes, Levitating Chairs and the Ultimate Killer App
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 046504428X ISBN 13: 9780465044283
Verlag: Basic Books, 2003

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Why programmable atoms are the ultimate killer app. . Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by companies ranging from Levi Strauss to IBM and the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in laboratories at MIT, Harvard, Sun Microsystems, and elsewhere are currently creating arrays of microscopic devices called "quantum dots" that are capable of acting like programmable atoms. They can be configured electronically to replicate the properties of any known atom and then can be changed, as fast as an electrical signal can travel, to have the properties of a different atom. Soon it will be possible not only to engineer into solid matter such unnatural properties as variable magnetism, programmable flavors, or centuple bonds far stronger than diamond, but also to change these properties at will. Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead. The possibilities are truly magical.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wil McCarthy is a novelist, the scie nce columnist for the SciFi channel, and the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aero space research corporation. Hacking Matter is an e xpansion of an article that appeared in Wired in O ctober 2001. He lives in Lakewood, Colorado.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
046504428X
ISBN 13 
9780465044283
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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