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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

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

#might #potential #technology #think #worry

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#function #given #important #into #launching

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#fact #in fact #man #plans #protect

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. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#build #cube #entire #entire world #exists

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#creates #discomfort #entire #facing #fundamental

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#confidence #cost #flight #lighter #materials

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#approximation #conflicts #everyone #first #future

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#arrange #atom #develop #even #inevitable