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George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
George Dyson is ringing a change on the famous 1959 lecture by physicist Richard Feynman that showed the way to nanotechnology. It was called, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."