Crichton, Michael
Summary: "Seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2011
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Summary: "Tiny robots include everything from a wall climbing microbot to a nanobot that goes inside the human body. Find out just what these awesome machines can do."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2014
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Summary: Presents answers to such technology questions as "How do scientists make things that are too small to see?" and "What are the effects of nanotechnology on the environment?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 620.5 JEFKurzweil, Ray
Summary: "This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity-assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The author issues a warning about the dangers and limitations of technology, delving into the latest research in genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology to map a future where humans will be made rather than born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003