Author: Ralph Merkle

Quotes

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

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

- Ralph Merkle

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

- Ralph Merkle

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

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

- Ralph Merkle

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

- Ralph Merkle

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

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

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