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Michael Filler
June 15, 2016

12: Charlie Bennett - Heat the bonkers out of it

Michael Filler
June 15, 2016

Charlie Bennett is back! We start by chatting about the joys and challenges of hosting Nanovation. Then, within the context of the movie Terminator Genisys, which is truly awful, we discuss self-replicating nanomachines. We overview their original articulation, the scientific arguments for and against their ultimate realization, and how, in the near-term, biology is far more likely to get us. (Recorded on June 7, 2016.)

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Show Notes:

  • Charlie Bennett

  • T. Coraghessan Boyle - "The Road to Wellville"

  • WREK

  • Stratēchery by Ben Thompson

  • Steven Perlberg - "E.W. Scripps Buys Podcast Company Stitcher"

  • Neal Stephenson - "The Diamond Age," "Snow Crash"

  • Thomas Pynchon

  • David Foster Wallace

  • James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - “The Sovereign Individual"

  • The a16z Podcast

  • Terminator Genisys

  • Feynman - "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

  • Eric Drexler - “Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology”

  • Richard Smalley - “Of Chemistry, Love and Nanobots"

  • George Whitesides - “The Once and Future Nanomachine"

  • Avogadro’s number

  • DARPA Atoms to Products program

  • C&E News debate between Drexler and Smalley

  • Cedric Orelle et al - "Protein Synthesis by Ribosomes with Tethered Subunits"

Newer Post13: John Hart - The Home Depot for nanomaterials
Older Post11: Brian Korgel - Even the simple things are hard
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