01649cam a2200373 i 4500 359513094 TxAuBib 20181004120000.0 160229t20162013||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016004633 9780544839618 0544839617 9780544839649 0544839641 (OCoLC)930041075 TxAuBib rda Howey, Hugh. Shift / Hugh Howey. First Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition. New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. ©2013. 570 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A John Joseph Adams Book.". In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. 20181004. Nanomedicine Fiction. Memory Fiction. Dystopias Fiction. Science fiction. Dystopian fiction.