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. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
