Ralph Merkle

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#access #basics #care #condition #everyone

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#idea #most #nanotechnology #people #simply

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#cost #crops #grow #inherently #less

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. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#build #directly #first #first time #let us

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#agriculture #amount #because #certain #could

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. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#cellular #damage #deal #disease #health

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #cannot #consequences #food #into

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

#block #develop #development #effectively #ensured

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. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#dealing #head #look #most #new

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

— Ralph Merkle

#might #potential #technology #think #worry