Table of contents for Our molecular future : how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform our world / Douglas Mulhall.

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PART 1. THE MOLECULAR AGE
Chapter 1. Singularity                                         27
Chapter 2. Molecular Building Blocks                           30
Chapter 3. What Comes First and What Does It Mean for Each of Us? 52
Chapter 4. What Comes Next?
Megatrends That Could Alter Our Lives                81
Chapter 5. The Nanoecology Revolution                          113
Chapter 6. Reviving Tropical Islands                          120
Chapter 7. Who's Driving the Molecular Machine?               124
PART 2. NATURE'S TIME BOMBS
Chapter 8. Are We Getting More or Less Vulnerable?            143



Chapter 9. Shaking Up Tokyo and the Globalized Economy        150
Chapter 10. So, You're Bored by Doomsday?                     156
Chapter 11. An Elephant in the Room of Environmentalism       174
Chapter 12. Lost Messages from Ancient Times                  180
PART 3. BLUEPRINTS FOR A
MOLECULAR DEFENSE
Chapter 13. Why Go There?                                     189
Chapter 14. Tools for Defusing Time Bombs                     191
Chapter 15. Lessons from Tokyo-Learning to Predict the Big One  217
Chapter 16. The Long Valley Caldera Defense-Avoiding a Dark Age 221
Chapter 17. How to Avert Armageddon-Have an Asteroid for Lunch 226
PART 4. GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
Chapter 18. The Right Questions                               233
Chapter 19. Overcoming Cultural Amnesia                       255
Chapter 20. Bypassing the Road to Hell                        263
Chapter 21. Using Open Source                                 282
Chapter 22. Redesigning Democracy for Artificial Intelligence  286
Chapter 23. Liberating Each One of Us                         293