George Whitesides: “Further out, there's the prospect of actually getting…”

“And that will be really important for remote learning and remote medicine and for learning about our climate and learning about things like fires and all different kinds of things, natural disasters, weather, incredible capabilities that will be coming down the road. Further out, there's the prospect of actually getting spectroscopy on the atmospheres of planets around other stars, which is going to be really exciting. And I think people getting into that area now really have the opportunity. To potentially detect biosignatures over the course of their careers. I don't know if that's five years away or 50 years away.” (28:54–29:01)

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