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Nanoplanet: molecular engineering in the time of ecological crisis.
- Source :
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Time & Society . Sep1998, Vol. 7 Issue 2/3, p353-368. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 1998
-
Abstract
- Nanotechnology, or molecular engineering, is a hypothetical productive system based on the precise arrangement of atoms into molecular level devices and macroscale structures. As a response to the current environmental predicament it appears to engage with both long-term, cumulative damage and non-linear runaway accidents. As a complex adaptive system with capacities for self-replication and self-transformation, nanotech has the potential to engage with runaway events on their own terrain, thereby constituting a response to catastrophe which runs the risk of becoming as ecologically tumultuous as the catastrophe itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *NANOTECHNOLOGY
*ECOLOGY
*HIGH technology
*ATOMS
*DISASTERS
*ENGINEERING
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0961463X
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2/3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Time & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16220039
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X98007002010