Stuff: the things the world is made of
Sciences et technologies
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Amato traces the use of stuff--raw materials--in the development of products from prehistoric to modern times. He relates the evolution of the field of materials science to the human ability to manipulate smaller and smaller building blocks of matter. He… theorizes that "smart" materials, under research in the 1990s, signal the beginning of a new technological era. c1997.