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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [April 22, 2022]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Machine in the Chemical System?

There are many possible paths for how this molecule can be oriented. And that becomes a much more difficult thing to analyze and it's something for which we don't have very good sort of human narrative description capabilities. Maybe eventually we will have a much more sophisticated way of manipulating molecules. Right now it's just you throw these buckets of molecules together and you hope they react. But eventually one might have a situation where one can really have what one might think of as programmable matter.

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