The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

Sehr spannendes Thema, aber das Buch hat deutliche Längen, schade eigentlich. Man fährt besser indem man die angesprochenen Stichworte selber recherchiert, z.B. Eric Drexler.

In the early 1970's, after the cancellation of the Apollo lunar exploration program, a sense of gloom pervaded th popular culture. Movies like 'Logan' s Run' and 'Soylent Green' showed life in the future to be either nasty, brutish and short or decadent, meaningless and short. Into this, the Club of Rome released its work, Limits to Growth, a statement on the futility of attempting better living through technology.Most people would be discouraged by such a work, but the heroes of this book took it as a challenge. Along the way, they managed to develop many of the technologies ,such as nanotech,personal computing and advanced space travel, that are making a difference today.I feel honored to have met some of these people. This book is an interesting history of that time.

america is suffering from a vision deficit. it doesn't know where it is going or why. but one of the biggest visions in the history of humanity arose in the 1980s. and that vision is about to be the very picture of a paradise that we need to give our lives meaning today. this book is the story of that vision and its makers. read it. and think big.

Visioneers presents a well documented history of two people who were strongly motivated to make substantial improvements to man's future, and were not necessarlily noticed by the popular press / media. A great book!