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 look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking...

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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access...

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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have...

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Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have...

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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce...

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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level,...

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The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be...

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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

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

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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain...

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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will,...