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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We don't attempt to predict what will happen. We can describe what is possible within the laws of known physics. Physics is well understood.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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The primary question shifts to, what do we want What is it that we find valuable intrinsically rather than what is it that we can afford to make
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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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