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.
From Ralph Merkle
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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