Neil Gershenfeld

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The reason that's much less of a problem than you would think is making bombs and guns and all of that is a very well-met market need.

Anywhere we go, there's a fine supply chain for weapons.

Now, hobbyists have been making guns for ages, and guns are available just about anywhere.

So you could go into the lab and make a gun.

Today, it's not a very good gun, and guns are easily available.

And so generally, we run these lab in war zones.

What we find is...

People don't go to them to make weapons, which you can already do anyway.

It's an alternative to making weapons.

Coming back to your question, I'd say the single most important thing I've learned is

The greatest natural resource of the planet is this amazing density of bright and vent of people whose brains are underused.

And you could view the social engineering of this lab work as creating the capacity for them.

And so in the end, the way this is going to impact society isn't going to be command and control.

It's how the world uses it.

And it's been really gratifying for me to see just how it does.

Yeah, well, first, let me start with a benevolent story, which is...

Trash is an analog concept.

There's no trash in a forest.

All the parts get disassembled and reused.

Trash means something doesn't have enough information to tell you how to reuse it.

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