![]() ![]() Some of Feynman’s conjectures about the “staggeringly small world” seemed like a cross between 19 th-century carnival hoaxes and science fiction. On 29 December 1959, speaking at an American Physical Society (APS) meeting, he took his audience on a wandering, speculative tour of tiny technology and problems that might have seemed insurmountable near the end of the vacuum-tube era. ![]() Feynman’s classic talk, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” remains a stellar example of physics prognostications that not only came mostly true, but in some cases exceeded expectations. In the age of science, studies of the future tend to be extrapolations from current trends.īut Richard P. įor centuries, grand predictions were the realm of soothsayers and self-proclaimed prophets. ![]()
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