“We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.”
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If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
