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9780465044290

Hacking Matter Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, And The Infinite Weirdness Of Programmable Atoms

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465044290

  • ISBN10:

    0465044298

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-14
  • Publisher: Basic Books
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List Price: $16.95

Summary

The book's science is solid and McCarthy's fervor genuinely infectious. The future never felt so close.- "Wired"

Author Biography

Wil McCarthy is a novelist, the science columnist for the SciFi channel, and the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aerospace research corporation. Hacking Matter is an expansion of an article that appeared in Wired in October 2001. He lives in Lakewood, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Programmable Matter: A Retrospectivep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xv
Clarke's Law and the Need for Magicp. 1
Standing Wavesp. 9
The Play of Lightp. 39
Thermodynamics and the Limits of the Possiblep. 61
Magnetism and Mechanicsp. 89
The Point-and-Click Promisep. 113
The Programmable Cityp. 133
The Future Tensep. 151
Afterword: Accidental Demigods?p. 171
Referencesp. 175
Patent Applicationp. 185
Acronymsp. 208
Indexp. 209
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