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