{"id":37008,"date":"2017-04-15T22:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ray-kurzweil-interviews-the-father-of-nanotechnology-eric-drexler"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:46","slug":"ray-kurzweil-interviews-the-father-of-nanotechnology-eric-drexler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ray-kurzweil-interviews-the-father-of-nanotechnology-eric-drexler","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil interviews the Father of Nanotechnology Eric Drexler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjIm9yIm0zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unimaginable Radical Abundance:<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I took the time to read chapter 11 of Eric Drexler\u2019s book Radical Abundance as to get a glimpse of what might be possible with Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM). I highly recommend the book.<\/p>\n<p>The potential of APM is truly unimaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Try to imagine billion core processors, memory storage in the billions of gigabytes per cm2. Solar panels far exceeding todays best laboratory efficiencies. Batteries that are a billion times more energy dense. All this with a negligible impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>APM can produce these products and many more at costs of roughly 20\u00a2 per kilogram!<\/p>\n<p>Just let that sink in. Just to illustrate this $1 would buy you more memory storage than is currently available throughout the entire world (roughly 10 Zettabytes).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ray-kurzweil-interviews-the-father-of-nanotechnology-eric-drexler\">Continue reading \u201cRay Kurzweil interviews the Father of Nanotechnology Eric Drexler\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unimaginable Radical Abundance: Yesterday I took the time to read chapter 11 of Eric Drexler\u2019s book Radical Abundance as to get a glimpse of what might be possible with Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM). I highly recommend the book. The potential of APM is truly unimaginable. Try to imagine billion core processors, memory storage in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,2018,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-ray-kurzweil","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58064,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008\/revisions\/58064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}