Richard Feynman – There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
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A 1959 lecture by Richard Feynman on nanotechnology is shared and discussed.
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Feynman, having given the talk in 1959, had remarkable foresight into how nanotechnology would begin to develop in his lifetime and beyond.