Making the future
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Argues that nanotech could let eight billion people consume without destroying the environment by assembling atoms into molecules and materials, not by cutting consumption; cites IBM’s 1981 scanning tunneling microscope as the outlier that launched nanotechnology, today with ~15,000 labs and ~2,000 products; claims a desk-sized nanofactory built from trillions of atomic robots could print food, filters, solar cells and a Mona Lisa, notes 50 trillion atoms in a grain of salt and that an atomic-scale production-line robot appears five months ago.
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