- Forecasts, High technology, Nanotechnology, Twentieth century
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Cool, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- K. Eric Drexler
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 298
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Anchor
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385199728
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First sentence
“COAL AND DIAMONDS, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy.”
About K. Eric Drexler · 1955
American nanotechnologist
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