Super-precise manufacturing on an atomic level could create materials with new properties - such as being highly resilient or 'smart' - that would be highly beneficial.
These manufacturing technologies could offer some of the world's biggest problems - including the depletion of natural resources, pollution, climate change, clean water and even poverty.
But it could also lead to the creation of large arsenals of conventional or more novel weapons made possible by atomically precise manufacturing.
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