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• Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough…
• The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That…
• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design…
• Any powerful technology can be abused.
• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into…
• If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like…
• I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of…
• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that…
• It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they…
• And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times…
• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that…
• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every…

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