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Ralph Merkle

"We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy."

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"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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"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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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
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"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
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"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."
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"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."
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"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."
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