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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.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
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 think the technology is infeasible you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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.
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.
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.
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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.
Food is available but it cannot be shipped into an area so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
