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Ralph Merkle
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"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."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Medical
"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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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Food
"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Food
"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Technology
"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."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Computers
"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Food
"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."
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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Technology
"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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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Health
"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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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Technology
"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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Ralph Merkle
Topic(s):
Technology
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