Nanotechnology Quotes

• Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

  Bernard Marcus

  Impact, Race, Medicine

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• 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

  Powerful, World, Sugar

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

  Ralph Merkle

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Thinking, Understanding, Important

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Suffering, Quality

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.

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• I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

  Rudy Rucker

  Thinking, Dry, Dead Ends

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Tools, Use, Way

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Technology, Engineering, Issues

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• ‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Destiny, Magic, Tools

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Jun 17, 2016

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• Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

  Paul McEuen

  Dna, Ideas, Molecules

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• Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.

  Jessica Alba

  Our World, Interesting, Stuff

  Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 29, 2008.

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• We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Baby, Mean, Opportunity

  "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". Book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005.

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• Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

  Peter Diamandis

  Technology, Groups, Done

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Memories, Real, Innovation

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• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

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• A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

  Charles Stross

  Religious, College, Issues

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.156, Penguin

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• Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Reality, Long Ago

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Technology, Racism

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• The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.

  Michael Tsarion

  Reality, Eugenics, Design

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