In this episode Max and Daniel speak with the venerable Ralph Merkle. Among his numerous achievements Ralph is the leading expert on nanotechnology, the inventor of cryptographic hashing and the co-inventor of public key cryptography. He is currently a board member at Alcor.
In today's episode we discuss:
- What is Molecular Nanotechnology?
- How do different people use the phrase "Nano-Tech"
- The use cases for medical nanobots
- How we manipulate the world at the nano scale
- What are the more difficult molecules to work with?
- The intersection of Cryonics and nanotech
- Ralph Merkle's relationship with Cryonics
- Ralph's views on other scientific fields
- Ralphs opinions on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin
- Is Ralph Merkle actually Satoshi Nakamoto?
And much more...
As always, you can find Max and Daniel over at the Cryonics Underground Channel in the Cryosphere Cryonics discord chat server.
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Links:
- Cryostasis Revival by Robert A. Freitas JR https://www.alcor.org/docs/CryostasisRevivalV2.11.pdf
- http://www.merkle.com/
- Nanofactory Example
- Nanotechnology & Cryonics - Preserving ourselves for the future
- The Scale of the Universe - A simulation to understand just how big (and small) things are.
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