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
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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