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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

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If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

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If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 2nd, 1952

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