Feynman Envisions Nanotech: Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Richard Feynman delivered his visionary lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, proposing that machines could manipulate individual atoms to build structures from the molecular level up. The speech anticipated the entire field of nanotechnology by decades and is now recognized as the intellectual starting point for technologies worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
December 29, 1959
67 years ago
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