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- NineLives, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WOW, use the coral cache to download. it's MUCH faster.
http://www.wilmccarthy.com.nyud.net:8090/HackingMatterMultimediaEdition.pdf - fustercluck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bought the dead tree version of this a year or so back. This is an _interesting_ book.
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^ sorry I zenscope's post was not in my cache. ( by the way an nice AJAXy thing for digg to add would be live updating of comments )
- Titanas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=RR6eaa_rC74C
Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself--to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible. Supported by organizations ranging from Levi Strauss and IBM to the Defense Department, solid-state physicists in renowned laboratories are working to make it a reality. In this dazzling investigation, Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology, describes how they are learning to control it, and tells us where all this will lead. The possibilities are truly astonishing. - n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I work for one of the leading physics institutes in the world, and just wanted to point out that the book seems technically plausible in its premises. Science is worthless without ways to apply it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe an explaination to explain wtf this is??
- LouisC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I downloaded it but I don't know when I'll read it. If I like it, I might just buy it.
Dugg since it's cool that the author's putting his book up for download like that. If only the music industry could take the hint. - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeh, umm... What is this? and don't tell me RTFB because I don't want to wast my time reading what sounds to me to be bull untill I hear otherwise and know what it is about.
- zenscope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it is sci-fi. if i recall, the first 3/4ths of the book explores scientific fact, and current nano-tech research, yet the last part of the book describes the author's patented (non-existent) device built based in part on current technology called the Wellstone. If constructed, bending some current theories and using a little imagination, it would do what the summary above states. Interesting read, but it won't be non-fiction for many many many more years if in our lifetime at all.
- speedyrev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is he selling what he's smokin?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember this book when it was called "Diamond Age".
- synch42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds like sci fi to me. But then portable computers were sci fi at one point too. I'll add this one to my reading list.
- mukyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good books make you go, DUDE!!! this is 2 DUDES up!!!
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0403'd >
- iceboxqs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bought the paper back a while back. Interesting read, give it whirl.
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got the Digg effect on the main link. Sounds interesting.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Are you a janitor?
- dlaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm able to access it no problems at all.
Dugg because of the author putting it up for free download. That's the spirit. - Centurion`, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Never heard of it, sounds cool though.
- Slimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0random - actually red this book
the culmination of it as a previous poster said is about this invention of his which is basically a fiber with these tiny 2-d quantum wells in it
if you make a little metal box at a certain voltage, electrons can be contained inside it. theory is that this would have its own electromagnetic/chemical proprties, ie a tv screen on demand/a clear window or basically anything... cool book dugg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From the "end user license agreement":
"this is not an electronic book or ebook, but a "multimedia adaptation" which includes highlights, hyperlinks, color illustrations, clickable author annotations, and other features which do not appear in the printed book."
"this work is intended to advertise and supplement the Basic Books printed edition (...), and should not be regarded as a substitute or competing edition." - yoja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice one Kamizu....
btw the link works....http://www.wilmccarthy.com.nyud.net:8090/HackingMatterMultimediaEdition.pdf
:) - hammerattack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wil McCarthy is the man. He's writes sci-fi for the sci-fi fan, and in truth there's less fiction and more science than any other writer I've ever known. If you follow his collapsium series (actually, there's "The Collapsium", and then the next three books are a separate story based on that universe with many characters in common; they are "The Wellstone", "Lost in Transmission", and "To Crush the Moon"), you can get a clear picture of a universe where programmable matter is ubiquitous, and it is a universe that gives us a technology indistinguishable from magic.
- kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0403 diggs = error 403
- h3adstr0ng, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0gah u bitch u found it before me....
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