If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
From Ralph Merkle
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.
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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