The Future of Nanotechnology • 2014 • episode "4/10" Curiosity Retreats: 2014 Lectures

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Eric Drexler, the "founding father of nanotechnology," and Jim Phillips, the CEO of Nanomech, discuss the potential applications and implications of nanotechnology. How will this atomically precise manufacturing impact the future of technology, global governance, and the environment?

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Curiosity Retreats: 2014 Lectures • 2014 • 10 episodes •

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The future of the Internet

Vint Cerf, co-author of the TCP/IP protocol suite that provides the Internet with its basic architecture, is known as "one of the founding fathers of the Internet." Cerf discusses what the future may hold for the internet: will it ultimately connect us with the universe?

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2014 • Technology

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A Universe of Big Numbers

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Discovery in Cosmology and Particle Physics

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2014 • Astronomy

The Middle East and Global Security

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Modern China

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2014 • Economics

Super Brain

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2014 • Brain

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