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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 Molecular Scale to Programmable Matter?

I think this issue about sort of what might be possible if we could do things at a molecular scale, I mean right now with computers we know the amazing power of being able to program things. If we could do that with matter down at the level of individual molecules we would be able to do spectacularly more things and I think that's the only case that we have right now where things aresort of happening at thelevel of molecules. But if we could generalize biology to arbitrary things with programmable matter spectacular kinds of technology right would be possible.

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