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Wil McCarthy - Guests - Coast to Coast AM

But "the real promise is magic," McCarthy said.
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The technology works by herding electrons into artificial patterns that form new atomic structures, he explained.
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Or they could turn your walls transparent so that you didn't have any privacy…They could even potentially collapse buildings," McCarthy said, outlining the potential downside of the technology.
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Citing automobiles as an example, he suggested they could turn soft and spring back during a collision.
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Wil McCarthy's HACKING MATTER

Wil McCarthy is a novelist, the science columnist for the SciFi channel, and the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aerospace research corporation.
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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.
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" -- Joachim Schummer: Public Interest in Nanotechnology as Reflected in Purchase Patterns of Books, Public Understanding of Science, 14 (2), 2005 "Veteran science fiction writer Wil McCarthy explores a frontier of real-world possibilities that could make all previous technological revolutions look like artifacts from the stone age.  He has a knack for expounding hard science in layman's terms, [and] speculates enthusiasically on the potential benefits.
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Citations An Alternate Selection of the Library of Science Book Club An Alternate Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club An Alternate Selection of the Scientific American Book Club A Selection of How-To Media (aka Science News Books) Nanotechnology Now "Best of 2003" U.S.
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A fascinating book for any reader intrigued by new technologies." -- Barnes and Noble "Promises to create a thunderclap of change.  McCarthy takes a fantastical concept, coolly explaining it in a plausible way, and helps even the most science- deficient reader to understand how 'hacking matter' works, and what it means for all of us." -- Dallas Morning News "Through the works of aerospace-engineer-turned-science-fiction-author Wil McCarthy... the promise of programmable matter could make the technology revolution wrought by semiconductors to date look like a warm-up for the main act.
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Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that.
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Wil McCarthy - Fantastic Fiction

Hacking Matter is an expansion of an article that appeared in Wired in October 2001.
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Wil McCarthy: Bloom - an infinity plus review

£6.99, 310 pages, paperback; published 18 May 2000.) It's good to see nanotech books finally beginning to proliferate on the sf shelves.
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Anyway, Bloom is a lot like Michael Swanwick's Vacuum Flowers (reviewed elsewhere in infinity plus) in its tour of the outer colonies revolving around a lost Earth, but not quite as exotic.
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With the fear of the bloom menace has come a rejection of many new technologies; our narrator, John Strasheim, is a sort of two-a-penny internet writer by night, but a fearless cobbler by day.
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It's hard to write nanotech sf precisely because the implications of a working nanotechnology just about take us out of sf and into fantasy.
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The remaining 1% of humanity has escaped to the moons of Jupiter and the more reckless ones the asteroid belt.
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Wil McCarthy | Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Authors | WWEnd

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Bloom -- book review - Book reviews -- Curled Up With A Good Book

A fraction of the human population of earth makes it off planet in time to escape the horrifying death that a mycoric bloom promises an animate being.
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Virtual reality, biotech, nanotech and space travel all play essential roles in this fast-paced novel with its wryly irreverent point-of-view.
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Just one or two sketched lines suggest fully the bleak loneliness that this possible future brings to fruition.
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It's an opportunity to take a break from the drudgery of his everyday life; it's a flattering recognition of his stature as an independent commentator.
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Face-to-face communication is as rare as dogs or cats -- people share thoughts and information through "zee-specs," VR glasses- cum-very personal computers that are as individualized as people's minds.
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Bloom, McCarthy's fifth novel, reveals the author's short-works strengths, with its punchy, right-into-the-thick-of-things style.
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Wil McCarthy - Summary Bibliography

Landis Once so far away, Mars now seems just around the corner.
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Landis Essays Alive and Well: Messages from the Edge (almost) of the Millennium (1999) with Kim Stanley Robinson and Michael Cassutt and Sheila Williams and Christie Golden and Cynthia Felice and Ellen Datlow and Beth Meacham and Geoffrey A.
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Wil McCarthy - Author - Science Fiction and Fantasy World ...

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Wil McCarthy, Bloom - University of Michigan

These ``mycora'' went on to learn how to devour inorganic materials of almost all sorts, and their spores, driven by the solar wind and the light of the sun, colonized everything within the orbit of Mars: the ``Mycosystem.'' The survivors of humanity --- a few million people at the most --- live in the asteroids, the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and Titan.
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His reporting (a rare activity, we're told, though there are news programs on the net) brings him to the attention of the authorities.
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The possibility then opens up that we'll make --- either deliberately or by accident --- something which will be very effective at turning everything else into more of itself, what those who make it their profession to speculate about such matters call ``grey goo.'' It may not happen; but if it does, McCarthy's book will all but surely prove to have been wildly optimistic.
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It's a fun ride, even if the ending manages to be both formulaic and not very sensible.
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They are protected by artificial immune-systems embracing entire settlements, and, at least in the outer solar system, which calls itself ``the Immunity,'' by a permanent siege-mentality.
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The ship gets launched weeks ahead of schedule, owing to sabotage (!), and they're off for a few hundred pages of treachery, interviews, culture shock (from visiting remote colonies of survivors), falling through space, playing with cellular automata, ship-board blooms, and discussing just what the mycora is and what should be done about it.
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Collapsium, Wil McCarthy (Auction ID: 110825, End Time : 03 Apr ...

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'Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness'Booklist 'McCarthy succeeds on many levels, combining a unique literary style with complex scientific speculation and political intrigue'Locus Product Details Format Paperback   Condition NEW   Condition Notes -   First Edition -   Signed -   RRP (new items only) $14.95   No of Pages 325   Language English   Publisher, Year Victor Gollancz, Orion Books   ISBN-10 -   ISBN-13 -   Dimensions 230 x 155 x 30 mm   Postage Weight 660g   Postage Postage Conditions Buyer pays for postage expenses Seller posts internationally Postage & Payment Details POSTAGE: Postage cost shown is for Australia only.
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Welcome to Wil McCarthy's Science Wiktion - Wil McCarthy's Science ...

Basically, I was in the middle of some promising writing projects when I accidentally co-founded a successful nanotech company and was forced to cut way back on fiction writing due to lack of time and energy.
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Wired 9.10: Ultimate Alchemy

For the price of coffee, any condensed-matter physicist will happily explain the future of computing.
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It's almost a direct quote from Marc Kastner, in a 1993 Physics Today paper, in which he incidentally coined the term "artificial atom." What's interesting is that this prediction is generally found in the summations and dismissals at the end of technical papers, and has not visibly evolved in the nine years since it first appeared.
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I don't bother asking what he's working on - if it pans out, we'll know soon enough.
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A pre-IPO startup in the heart of Silicon Valley, QDC takes Bawendi's chemically synthesized quantum dots into the realm of bioscience.
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This kind of dramatic and instantaneous effect is serious Clarke's law mojo - virtually indistinguishable from magic.
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It's a term that has served me well in my fiction.
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Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the ...

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The Collapsium (Queendom of Sol, book 1) by Wil McCarthy

The Collapsim marks out Wil McCarthy as one of the brightest of the new generation of SF talents. Similar Books by other authors... Used availability for Wil McCarthy's The CollapsiumSee all available used copies of this book at: Abebooks UK or Abebooks US  Hardback EditionsJanuary 2004 : Library BindingTitle: CollapsiumAuthor(s): Wil McCarthyISBN: 0-613-36945-9 / 978-0-613-36945-9 (USA edition)Publisher: Topeka BinderyAvailability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   More details...August 2000 : HardbackTitle: The CollapsiumAuthor(s): Wil McCarthyISBN: 0-345-40856-X / 978-0-345-40856-3 (USA edition)Publisher: Del ReyAvailability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   More details...
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It is a dream that may soon be about to end as the collapsium ring that circles the sun is in danger of collapsing into it sparking an apocalyptic chain reaction.
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The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

But you don't need to be a rocket scientist to enjoy this book (or even a super genius like me).
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The inventor of said substances, Bruno de Tovaji, is now living in self-imposed exile on his own asteroid in the Oort Cloud.
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And that’s the main gripe I have with this book.
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But then a saboteur causes this Ring Collapsiter to fall toward the sun, imperiling the entire solar system, and Queen Tamra calls on Bruno de Towaji for help.
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The hero of the story is the brilliant scientist Bruno de To...moreA few weeks ago I was flipping through the New York Times Book Review when I came across a brief, favorable review for this science fiction tale.
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I found this book to be as entertaining as it is bizarre.
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The Fall of Sirius by Wil McCarthy (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris

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Hacking Matter by Wil Mccarthy - download here

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.
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