If you look at the various ... by Ralph Merkle, an American Scientist

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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.”

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Ralph Merkle

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Name: Ralph Merkle

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Feb 2, 1952

Profession: Scientist

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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

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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.

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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

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Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

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