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284 The Internet is indeed vast, but so is the determination of Google to index it and make it searchable, so that the benefits of the World Wide Web can be made more available to all. And with every minute of every day that goes past, now in 90 different languages worldwide, more than 138,000 searches are carried out through Google technologies. More than 200 million searches of an index that contains close to 6 billion web pages, documents, images and postings. That’s an awful lot of zeros involved in those figures, maybe not quite yet a googol, but be sure that the Google is catching up fast with it’s mathematical namesake. Текст 10. Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution From the book by K . Eric Drexler , Chris Peterson , and Gayle Pergamit Preface Antibiotics, aircraft, satellites, nuclear weapons, television, mass production, computers, a global petroleum economy – all the familiar revolutions of twentieth-century technology, with their growing conse- quences for human life and the Earth itself, have emerged within living memory. These revolutions have been enormous, yet the next few dec- ades promise far more. The new prospects aren't as familiar, and can't be: they haven't happened yet. Our aim in this book, though, is to see what we can see, to try to understand not the events of the unknown and unknowable future but distinct, knowable possibilities that will shape what the future can become. Twentieth-century technology is headed for the junk heap, or perhaps the recycling bins. It has changed life; its replacement will change life again, but differently. This book attempts to trace at least a few of the important consequences of the coming revolution in molecu-