
Visioneers
The story of the visionary scientists who invented the future
In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O''Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity''s expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society''s future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These mod...
The story of the visionary scientists who invented the future
In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O''Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity''s expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society''s future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These mod...