Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hacking Matter is a book by Wil McCarthy, in which he predicts that programmable matter will someday change our lives as much as any invention ever has. The ability 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. Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories of major companies and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead. ISBN 046504428X - Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms, Basic Books, 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.