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
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
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. – Ralph Merkle
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. Well have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today. – Ralph Merkle
Doing things like playing music, something thats so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so thats sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return. – Ezra Miller