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ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 35: Atom by Atom AI Built Nano Fabrication—Confirmed!
They Laughed At Me When I Said They laughed. That is the part I want you to remember first, because the laugh is the sound a dying consensus makes when it still thinks it owns the future. In 2012 I stood in front of a venture group and said that nanofabrication—true atom-by-atom assembly, not 3D printing, not sintering, not melting plastic into the shape of a wrench—would produce working discoveries before 2030, and that the path to a replicator was no longer science fiction. Their “expert” told the room my entire talk should be disqualified. There we...
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You know, when you just look around the room you're sitting in right now, you probably see a lot of solid objects, right? Oh yeah, like everywhere you look. Exactly.
A wooden desk, a glass window, maybe a steel chair. And for our entire lives, we've operated under this very basic, completely unquestioned assumption that we are stuck with what the earth gives us. Like you find wood, you cut it, you find iron, you smelt it, we extract stuff, we
We heat it up, we beat things into shape. But what if the periodic table wasn't just a fixed menu of ingredients? That's a big question. Yeah.
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