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The World We (Will) Live In

Posted on June 26, 2008

A female police officer aims with her pistol in a shooting range during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, Iraq.One of the main messages I had hoped to impart in Saudi Arabia -- and which I did impart during my talk yesterday at the Issues Management Conference in Washington, DC -- is that the world is changing fast.The time and place in which molecular manufacturing will emerge is still unknown, but what is known is that conditions then will be different from what we see today. What those differences might be and how they will affect the development and deployment of nanofactory technology i...

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