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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

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Ralph Merkle is saying that advanced technology will enable us to create tiny tools made of molecules that can perform precise surgeries. These tools will allow us to fix problems by working directly on the smallest, most fundamental parts causing the issue.

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