LEADER 04356nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910971043603321 005 20240521200728.0 010 $a9781299051171 010 $a1299051170 010 $a9781400844685 010 $a1400844681 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844685 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276737 035 $a(EBL)1042898 035 $a(OCoLC)820009872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11966248 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10758475 035 $a(PQKB)11267087 035 $a(DE-B1597)474142 035 $a(OCoLC)979686033 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844685 035 $a(PPN)199244782 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88838054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042898 035 $a(FRCYB88838054)88838054 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276737 100 $a20120613d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe visioneers $ehow a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future /$fW. Patrick McCray 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780691176291 311 08$a0691176299 311 08$a9780691139838 311 08$a0691139830 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Visioneering Technological Futures --$tChapter 1. Utopia or Oblivion for Spaceship Earth? --$tChapter 2. The Inspiration of Limits --$tChapter 3. Building Castles in the Sky --$tChapter 4. Omnificent --$tChapter 5. Could Small Be Beautiful? --$tChapter 6. California Dreaming --$tChapter 7. Confirmation, Benediction, and Inquisition --$tChapter 8. Visioneering's Value --$tA Note on Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $a"In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies could transform society as humans mastered the ability to create new worlds, undertook atomic-scale engineering, and, if truly successful, overcame their own biological limits. The Visioneers tells the story of how these scientists and the communities they fostered imagined, designed, and popularized speculative technologies such as space colonies and nanotechnologies. Patrick McCray traces how these visioneers blended countercultural ideals with hard science, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, and unbridled optimism about the future. He shows how they built networks that communicated their ideas to writers, politicians, and corporate leaders. But the visioneers were not immune to failure--or to the lures of profit, celebrity, and hype. O'Neill and Drexler faced difficulty funding their work and overcoming colleagues' skepticism, and saw their ideas co-opted and transformed by Timothy Leary, the scriptwriters of Star Trek, and many others. Ultimately, both men struggled to overcome stigma and ostracism as they tried to unshackle their visioneering from pejorative labels like "fringe" and "pseudoscience." The Visioneers provides a balanced look at the successes and pitfalls they encountered. The book exposes the dangers of promotion--oversimplification, misuse, and misunderstanding--that can plague exploratory science. But above all, it highlights the importance of radical new ideas that inspire us to support cutting-edge research into tomorrow's technologies"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aVisionaries 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aVisionaries. 676 $a509 686 $aSCI034000$aSCI050000$2bisacsh 700 $aMcCray$b W. 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