How far can we push computing?

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The Core Event

On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” on how we might manipulate and control things on an extremely small scale.

Key Facts

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next.

Context & Significance

On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” on how we might manipulate and control things on an extremely small scale.

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