Tools & manufacturing · around 2058
Atomically precise manufacturing
Projection
Programmable machines build products by placing atoms and molecules exactly where designed.
Molecular manufacturing would extend the precision of biology's ribosomes to arbitrary materials. It could make ultra-strong structures, precise catalysts and electronics at very low cost.
Why it’s plausible: DNA origami and protein design already build precise nanostructures; general-purpose positional assembly remains an open research problem with no demonstrated path to scale.