Here’s a huge, data-rich visualization of the money dimension of McDonald’s meals, billionaires, the Moon landing, income quintiles, and the like. It’s well done, spans 12 orders of magnitude, and kept my attention for entirely too long.
The Trajectory of Technology
High-throughput
atomically precise manufacturing:
• Will enable large-scale, low-cost production of advanced products.
• Can enable solutions to seemingly intractable global problems.
• Will enable rapid draw-down of atmospheric CO2 levels.
• Rests on well-understood scientific and engineering principles.
• Will require further advances in atomically precise fabrication.
• Relevant research to date has been fragmented and unfocused.
• The primary challenges today are conceptual and institutional.
See: The Physical Basis of High-Throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing
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