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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Parallel History of Computing and Physics
I yelled at the whole computer industry being based on a fiction metropolis. Programmers frolicking in the garden while somebody moves levers in the basement. I wasn't deeply inspired to think about better ways to detect shoplifting tags but stumbled across companies that needed help with that and was thinking about it. Then I realized those two worlds intersected and we could use the failed approach for the shoplifting tags to make early quantum computing algorithms. Can you just link on that? Just using nuclear spins to do computation that like what gave you the guts to try to think through this from a digital fabrication perspective actually.
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