 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. |
| 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. |
| If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is. |
| 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. |
| Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. |
| 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. |
| We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. |
| One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations. |
| One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance. |
| We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. |
| If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. |
| Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. |
| Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. |
